While the perception of traditional museology rapidly changes into a perception of contemporary museology at our present day, the transformation process that has started all around the world, especially in city museums, also continues in Turkey, as well. The Library and Museum of Izzet Koyunoğlu, opened in Konya in 1984, is the first private museum established by municipalities in Turkey and includes many ethnographic and archaeological pieces. This building started to fade away as it stood more than 30 years time. A re-functioning project is prepared to do something about this cultural building, which became a problem in the city so far. For this purpose, the Library and Museum of İzzet Koyunoğlu is approached to transform it into Konya City Museum Project by four-year students that take Interior Design Project-7 Course during 2014-2015 Education Year Fall Semester in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in Faculty of Fine Arts, Konya Selcuk University. Metaphor method is used in project work. Projects are shaped around such concepts that the students defined as window to the past, tolerance, fusion, echo, looping, gravitation, contrast, iconia, neon and transparency. Students learn about the cultural inheritance of the city by this project research and also it attracts the attention of leading authorities, initiating the applications for the project. Project studies of students are exhibited in Koyunoğlu Museum and many conferences are held both in and out of the country. Functional transformation of the building has speeded up, creating awareness in this building that is under the process of fading away

Koyunoğlu Museum, renovation, project, method, metaphor