The Trabzon Museum, also known as the Kostaki Mansion, is a historic house museum in Trabzon, Turkey, with archaeological and ethnographic exhibits. The mansion was built in the early 1900s as a private residence for Kostaki Teophylaktos, a banker of Greek origin. The architect was Alexandros Kakoulidis, who also designed the Greek College of Trebizond. The room walls are decorated with near-Baroque hand-carved ornamentation.
Teophylaktos went bankrupt in 1917. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed there from September 15 to 17, 1924. From 1937 to 1987 it was used as a girls' vocational high school.
It was restored from 1988 to 2001 and opened to the public on April 22, 2001. Its inventory includes 3,651 items, with archaeology in the basement and ethnography on the first floor.
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