The museum building was built in 1926 as a courthouse. The building has served as the Bursa Courthouse for 75 years. In 2001, a protocol was signed between Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and the Ministry of Justice.
Bursa City Museum aims to introduce the cultural, historical, social and economic richness of the city and to guide the citizens of tomorrow. To this end, Bursa has all kinds of documents, articles, books, visual materials, audio and video records about Bursa, organizing temporary and permanent exhibitions based on this data, and creating an interactive environment based on mutual relations with the visitor in the vision required by modern museum understanding. It is a cultural unit established within the Metropolitan Municipality.