First opened in the lhlamur Pavilion in 1952, the Tanzimat Museum was moved first to Yıldız Park in 1969, then in1983 to a most appropriate location, the Gülhane Park, where the Ottoman Sultan had issued the imperial decree of reforms, which ushered in the Tanzimat (Reform) period. This museum is dedicated to the display of [...]
One of the interesting mansions in Sarıyer, a three-storied building, was chosen as the locale of a beautiful museum founded by the Koç family. Rare objects collected over the years, costumes and artifacts reflecting the lifestyles of past centuries, valuable fabrics, and gold, silver and porcelain wares are displayed in the museum. After the Koç [...]
The Rumeli Fortress, or Rumeli Hisan, was built in 1452 by Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (1451-81) as part of his efforts to conquer the city of Constantinople. Located at the narrowest point oft he Bosphorus on the European side, it is strategically placed for the control of ship traffic on the Bosphorus and directly faces [...]
The Press Museum was established in 1988 in an historical neo¬classical building which had been built in 1865 as the original building of the former Darülfünun, the first Ottoman university This museum contains paintings of individuals who made important contributions to the development of the press in Turkey, as well as their personal belongings. There [...]
The museum is situated in Besiktas, not far from the mausoleum and statue of Barbaros Hayreddin, the famous Turkish admiral of the 16th century. The rich collections of the museum are exhibited in two buildings and the garden. The large building houses a collection of old boats, while in the smaller rooms and halls of [...]
This is one of the leading museums of its kind in the world. The military museum and culture center was reopened at its present building in 1993 with a very successful and contemporary exhibition concept. The former military academy, where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was also a student, was renovated and various additions were made. Today [...]
This museum contains one of the most important collections of Turkish and Islamic art in the world. First established in 1914 at the Daruzziyafe of the Süleymaniye Complex, it was moved in 1938 to its present location on the site of the Byzantine Hippodrome, in the palace of İbrahim Paşa. This palace, built in 1524 [...]
This museum is a separate section of the Archaeological Museum. It was originally built by Osman Hamdi Bey, the famous Ottoman painter and director of the Archaeological Museum, as the first fine arts academy in Turkey when the academy moved to Cağaloğlu in 1917, the building was converted into a museum and put under the [...]
Founded by Atatürk in 1937 as the first public museum of the plastic arts, the Museum of Painting and Sculpture was originally housed within the halls of the Dolmabahçe Palace. Located on the ground floor of the Dolmabahçe Palace, it is presently under the administration of the Mimar Sinan University. This museum contains the largest [...]
The Galata Mevlevihanesi, or dervish convent, built in 1491, was one of the first Mevlevi dervish convents in İstanbul. Closed down in the 1920s during the early Republican period, this Mevlevihane was reopened as a museum in 1975.
The Semahane (meeting house of the dervishes where the whirling ceremony is performed) and adjacent rooms house a [...]
Open to the public since 1989 and housed in the Gazanfer Ağa Medrese, this municipal museum contains original works of many Turkish cartoonists, a collection of Turkish and International periodicals, as well as books on cartoons and humor.
Karikatür ve Mizah Eserleri Müzesi
Atatürk Bulvari, Kovacılar Sokak No. 12, Fatih (212) 521 12 64
Open daily 9.00-18.00
The Beyazit Medresesi (Educational Institution) was used as the municipality library since 1945. After a while it was rearranged as the Turkish Foundations Calligraphic Arts Museum.
Inside the complex there are nineteen rooms. The Qurans, imperial seals, diplomas, Hilye-i Serif (descriptions of Prophet), equipment used for calligraphic writing, samples of book binding, holy relics, miniatures are [...]
Located on the left side of the Haghia Sophia-Gülhane Park road in Sultanahmet, the Basilica Cistern is also known as Yerebatan place. It was built in approximately 540 A.D. by the Emperor justinianos I of the Byzantine Empire. A big square was dug underneath the ground and it was supported by 300 columns. At the [...]
The word “chora” means “outside the city, the countryside”. Probably, a small church built here before the erection of the 5th century Roman city walls gave its name to the later churches built on the same site. The present-day edifice is dated to the llth-14th centuries. Besides its attractive exterior, the mosaics and frescoes inside [...]
The three-story house of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, who died in İstanbul in 1855, was transformed into a museum in 1955, according to a Turkish-Polish cultural agreement concerning the 100-year commemoration of the death of this important Polish poet.
The Adam Mickiewicz Museum was opened to the public m1984. Divided into three halls, the museum [...]
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