MUSEOS

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Adam Mickiewicz Mí¼zesi, All Areas Adam Mickiewicz Museum is a historic house museum dedicated to the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. The house was renovated after a fire in 1870. The museum was opened in 1955 with the help of the Museum of Literature in Warsaw. The crypt where Mickiewicz was temporarily buried for the period of one month is located in the basement. The museum houses some manuscripts of Adam Mickiewicz, historical documents and paintings. [ + más ]

Atatí¼rk Museum, All Areas libre The house of Mustafa Kemal now contains three floors of memorabilia of the great Atatürk. The museum houses personal belongings of Atatürk like clothes and collections, other than historical documents, photographs and paintings of his lifetime. [ + más ]

Cartoon & Humour Museum, All Areas libre Open to the public since 1989 and housed in the Gazanfer Aga Medrese,the Karikatur Muzesi or the Istanbul Museum of Cartoon & Humour museum contains original work of many Turkish cartoonists, a collection of Turkish and international periodicals, as well as book on cartoons and humor. The museum provides individual or mixed exhibitions for local and international artists. There are two types of exhibitions. One is the exhibition for the history of Turkish humour, the other is the exhibition for international artist organized at least every month. The museum has a humour library (Mizah Kitapligi) made of publications on humour published in Turkey and the world as well as an archieve of humour of any works collected from Turkey and the world and classified according to the countries. [ + más ]

Great Palace Mosaic Museum, All Areas Located close to Sultanahmet Square, the Great Palace Mosaic Museum features houses mosaics from the 6th-century (527-565) Byzantine period, unearthed at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople. This museum was built on the northern section of the peristyle courtyard of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Empire, where mosaics used to decorate the pavement had been discovered partially in good condition. The pavement is estimated to have measured from 3500 to 4000 sq m in its original form. The 250 sq m that is preserved here is the largest discovered remnant – the rest has been destroyed or remains buried underneath the Blue Mosque and surrounding shops and hotels. [ + más ]

Istanbul Modern, All Areas The Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi), hereinafter known as İstanbul Modern or İstanbulModern, is a contemporary art museum located in Tophane. Presents works of Turkish artists mostly, but often the temporary exhibits include foreign artists. It was the first private museum of modern art in Turkey. [ + más ]

Jewish Museum of Turkey, All Areas The Jewish Museum of Turkey in Karakoy,is housed in the former Zulfaris Synagogue. Jewish Museum of Turkey includes sections on the intermingling cultures of Jewish and Muslim Turks and ethnographic articles that depict the traditions of Turkish Jews, as well as the historical accounts of the Jewish odyssey from Spain to Turkey. [ + más ]

Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, All Areas The Museum of Turkish and İslamic Arts cvontains turkish and İslamic Arts all together and is known as the last museum to open in the Otoman Period. Constructed in 1524, the building was formerly the palace of the first grand vizier to Suleiman the Magnificent, and husband of the Sultan's sister. The museum’s exhibits date from the 8th and 9th centuries up to the 19th century. Highlights include the superb calligraphy exhibits, with müknames (scrolls outlining an imperial decree) featuring the sultan’s tuÄŸra (monogram). Look out for the exquisite Iranian book binding from the Safavid period (1501–1786). And whatever you do, don’t miss the extraordinary collection of carpets displayed in the divanhane (ceremonial hall) – it includes Holbein, Lotto, Konya, UÅŸhak, Iran and Caucasia examples. The lower floor of the museum houses ethnographic exhibits. Labels are in Turkish and English throughout. [ + más ]

Museum Of Turkish Calligraphic Art, All Areas Opened in 1968, the Museum Of Turkish Calligraphic Art is located close to the Beyazıt Square. This museum contains wall hangings and manuscripts illustrating mainly cursive calligraphic styles, many dating mostly from the 13th century. Here you can see Qur’ans written in of muhakkak, nesih, and küfi scripts, between others. Don´t miss the Holy Relics Section of the museum. [ + más ]

Pera Museum, All Areas The Pera Museum (Turkish: Pera Müzesi), is a private art museum and gallery. Opened in 2005, here you can see works very prominent artists such as Chagall, Picasso and Botero. Across the five floors, are the three permanent collections “Orientalist Paintings”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures”, and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics,”. This museum has introduced Turkish people to a long list of internationally acclaimed artists as Jean Dubuffet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rembrandt, Niko Pirosmani, Josef Koudelka, Joan Miró, Akira Kurosawa, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Goya. [ + más ]

Philoxenus Cistern, All Areas The 1001 Columns Cistern, also called the ‘Philoxenus Cistern’ or ‘Binbirdirek Cistern’ in Turkish, is the oldest known cistern in Istanbul. Constructed under a palace, often identified as the Palace of Antiochos in the 5th century, this cistern is a massive reservoir that is surrounded with a thick wall all around. Inside the cistern there were 224 columns (16 rows x14 columns) with the dimensions of 64m, 56m, 40m. Today, you can see only 212 of them exist. The gap between the two columns is 3.75m and the columns are connected to each other with arches which carry the transversal vaults. - See more at: http://www.binbirdirek.com/History#sthash.wv7fDfe6.dpuf [ + más ]

Rahmi M Koç Industrial Museum, All Areas The Rahmi M. Koç Museum is dedicated to history of transport, industry and communications. Founded in 1991, thi museum consists in icons of industrial archaeology, which makes it all the more appropriate that they now host our collection of industrial exhibits. This buildings are: The Lengerhane,TThe Hasköy Dockyard, The Restoration an The ‘TEKEL’ land [ + más ]

Rezan Has Museum, All Areas libre Hosting genuine exhibitions and cultural activities since 2007 in the frame of its vigorous museum studies, Rezan Has Museum has become a museum site connecting the past to the future with its Ottoman hammam structure dated back to 17th century and Byzantine cistern to 11th century. The museum possesses actually no collections, however, provides space for exhibitions within the Kadir Has University's building, a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage winning redevelopment from the historical "Cibali Tabacco Factory".[1][2] . The museum consists of a cistern dating back to 11th century, called "Karanlık çeÅŸme" (literally: "The Dark Fountain"), which is one of the few Byzantian structures outside of the Walls of Constantinople along Golden Horn. Another important part of the museum is a hamam ruin from the 17th century of the Ottoman era, which is situated at the top of the cistern. [ + más ]

Rumelihisarı, All Areas Rumeli fortress was builtin 1452 by the sultan Mehmet the Conqueror in preparation for the final attack on Constantinople, with the aim to control the sea traffic on the Bosphorus strait and prevent aid from the Black Sea to reach Constantinople during the Turkish siege of the city in 1453, particularly from the Genoese colonies such as Caffa, Sinop and Amasra. Located at the narrowest section of the Bosphorus Strait it occupies an area of 60.000 m2 (16 acres), had 4 main and 1 smaller gate, and 3 large and 1 smaller tower. [ + más ]

Sakip Sabanci Museum, All Areas This museum has international travelling art exhibitions, featuring one of İstanbul’s most stylish eateries, Müzedechanga, which has an extensive terrace and magnificent Bosphorus views. This museum is dedicated to calligraphic art, religious and state documents, as well as paintings of the Ottoman era. [ + más ]

The Museum Of The Ancient Orient, All Areas This is the first building to the left at the entrance of the Archeological Museum. Originally a school building, it was converted into a museum in 1917, and then modernized between 1963-1973. The artifacts brought here from Egypt and the Middle Eastern countries that were under Ottoman rule prior to World War I, and relics from ancient Anatolian civilizations comprise a unique and beautiful collection.~ The Ancient Orient Museum consists of the sections of Pre-Islamic Arabian Art, Egypt Collection, Mesopotamia Collection, Anatolia Collection, Urartu Collection and Cuneiform Documents, arranged according to regions; the cultures of the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Anatolia have been presented in historical order. Besides the unique artifacts such as the stele of the Akkadian King Naram-Suen, the Treaty of Kadesh and the Ishtar Gate, the Tablet Archive containing 75,000 cuneiform documents are housed in this museum. [ + más ]

Tophane i Amire, All Areas libre The Tophane-i Amire, or Ottoman Imperial Arsenal in the district of Tophane has been restored and converted to be the art exhibit center for Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. [ + más ]

Topkapı Sarayı Mí¼zesi, All Areas libre The first structures of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul after the conquest in 1453 by Mehmed II was built between the years of 1460-1478. he palace complex has hundreds of rooms and chambers, but only the most important are accessible to the public today. The complex is guarded by officials of the ministry as well as armed guards of the Turkish military. The palace includes many fine examples of Ottoman architecture. It contains large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, shields, armor, Ottoman miniatures, Islamic calligraphic manuscripts and murals, as well as a display of Ottoman treasures and jewelry. [ + más ]

Yedikule Zindanlari Mí¼zesi, All Areas Yedikule Dungeons is one of the oldest open-air museums. Also known as Fortress of The Seven Towers Museum, here was where the ambassadors of foreign powers that had displeased the Ottoman sultan awaited their fate (often in privation), and where at least one Ottoman prince awaited—and met—his death. Located in the land walls near the Sea of Marmara shore, The Golden Gate was the monumental and ceremonial entrance to the city as one came along the Roman road from Europe, with four massive towers built into Theodosius II's mighty land walls. [ + más ]