Since 2000, in Turkey 83 city museums are established and nearly 90 new ones are announced to be opened soon. The literature on the city museums in Turkey considers city museum as the establisher of the city identity. In that point archiving the local values, serving as the memory and narrator of history of the city is emphasized. Regarding all these “missions”, the city museums are seen as the “mirror of the city” which reflects/represents the city. The theoretical and methodological lens that this thesis has is discourse analysis, which is a suitable lens to detect the relationships between statements and spatial practices. Hence this dissertation analyzes city museums in Turkey through a tripartite system of discursive parts: the statements of the actors, the buildings and their locations, and the exhibitions. The relation between these three parts deciphers how the certain concepts and themes dominate the discourse of city museums in Turkey. While the interrelation of these parts is important, their relation to the political conjuncture of today and the museological past of Turkey is crucial to discuss how the political practices instrumentalize the city museums. With the overall analysis, this dissertation discusses how the discourse of city museums in Turkey constitutes the knowledge of localness with using the concepts of memory, history and identity through the representative strategy of today’s political discourses.