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MUSEUMS
By norm the Turkish museums are
opened EVERY day of the week except the Lunes--Also the palaces close
the Lunes. The famous Palace Topkapi closes every Tuesday instead of the
Lunes.
For more information it is possible to contact with Department of
Culture.
Headquarter of Museums and Monuments:
2 Meclis Binasi, Yani, Ulus - Ankara Tel: +90 (312) 3104960 - 69 Fax:
+90 (312) 3245147 The museums of Istanbul have the following days of
closing.
ON MONDAY Estanbul's Archelogical Museum and attached Museums Turkish
Museum - Islamic Museum of Holy Sophia and attached Museums
ON TUESDAY Museum of the Topkapi and annexes.
Museum of Divan Yildiz's Edebiyati Museo
ON WEDNESDAY Museum of Hisarlar's Kariye Museo (Fortaleza of Rumeli and
Anatolia and annexes)
The Ataturk
Museum
House where Ataturk lived and worked before the War of Independence
during his stay in Istanbul between 1918 and 1919, originally was built
in 1908 and restored by the Municipality of Istanbul in 1943, opening to
the public in 1981. Top floor of this building was reserved to His
mother Zubeyde Hanim and His sister Makbule, meanwhile Ataturk used
middle floor for himself and lower floor for His loyal officer.
On display are photographs of Ataturk from his birth until his death, as
well as some of his clothes, personal belongings and paintings. It's
located at Halaskargazi Street in Sisli district.
Open daily between 09:30-16:00 except Thursdays and Sundays.
Tel: (212) 240 63 19
Asiyan Museum
This museum is the former residence of famous Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret
(1867-1915) who constructed the building himself. In addition to an
exhibit of the personal belongings of Fikret, there is a room devoted to
the poet Nigar Hanim and displaying some of the belongings of Abdulhak
Hamit.
It's located in Asiyan-Bebek district on the Bosphorus.
Open daily between 09:00-16:00 except Sundays and Mondays.
Tel: (212) 263 69 86
Archaeological
Museum
This complex was build by the end of 19th century by the architect
Vallaury thanks to great efforts of famous Turkish painter Osman Hamdi
Bey. It includes the exquisite Tiled Kiosk and the Museum of the Ancient
Orient and houses a large collection of artifacts and works of art
belonging to ancient Greek, Roman and other Anatolian civilizations
dating back to the 6th century BC. The Sarcophagus of Alexander the
Great, Sarcophagus of Mourning Ladies, and other ancient sarcophagi and
various objects found in the Sidon excavation are among its most
interesting pieces.
Ancient Eastern Archeological Museum was designed and open to service in
1917 by Halil Eldem Bey. The collection on displays comprised of about
15000 archeological pieces of Ancient Mesopotamia, Pre-Greek Anatolia,
Assyrian, Sumerian, Acadian, Babylonian, Ancient Egyptian and
Pre-Islamic Arabic culture.
Open daily between 09:30-16:30 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 520 77 40 and 41
Sadberk Hanim
Museum
Founded by the Vehbi Koc Foundation in 1980 in the historical Azaryan
residence along the Bosphorus, this museum is a beautiful three-story
"yali" (old Ottoman house) and houses a rich collection of
Anatolian-based works of art, antiques and relics dating from 6000 BC.
It is the first private museum of Turkey opened by Koc family, the
richest of Turkey.
Open daily between 10:00-17:00 except Wednesdays.
Tel: (212) 242 38 13 and 14
Modern Arts
Museum
Opened its doors in December 2004 thanks to Eczacibasi family, this is
the first and only Modern Arts museum in Istanbul. It's housed at
renovated old docks in Karaköy district facing Topkapi Palace, with a
rich library, exhibitions, photograph gallery, sculpture courtyard,
movie theater, cafe and souvenir shop. One can find in this private
museum almost everything on modern Turkish Arts.
Open daily between 10:00-18:00 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 334 73 00
Calligraphy
Museum
The Beyazid Medresse, which was used as the municipality library since
1945 was evacuated, restored and reorganized as the Turkish Calligraphic
Arts Museum. It has interesting and valuable examples of the Turkish art
of the pen, Korans, imperial seals, diplomas, Hilye-i serif
(descriptions of the Prophet), equipment and apparatus for calligraphic
writing, samples of bookbinding, holy relics and miniatures, especially
from Ottoman and Seljuk periods.
Open daily between 09:00-16:00 except Sundays and Mondays.
Tel: (212) 527 58 51
Fine Arts Museum
On the order of Ataturk, this museum was opened in 1937 in the crown
prince suites of Dolmabahce Palace. It was the first art museum in
Turkey and only one in Istanbul until recently. The permanent collection
presents a panoramic view of the Turkish plastic arts and also includes
works of world famous artists, an impressionist collection, sculptures
and works of military painters.
Open daily between 10:00-17:00 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 261 42 98 and 99
City Museum
The museum was first located in the Bayezit Municipal Library from the
year 1939 until it was moved to the Fine Arts building of the Yildiz
Palace complex in 1988. On display are paintings depicting the social
life of the Ottoman period in Istanbul, calligraphy, textiles, 18th and
19th century porcelains made in the imperial workshops of Yildiz Palace,
various glass objects, calligraphy equipment and other objects of daily
life.
Tel: (212) 258 53 44
Museum of
Turkish and Islamic Art
Fine collection of art and ethnography in the lovely setting of Ibrahim
Pasa Palace in the old Hippodrome area. It was built in the 16th century
and donated to Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha by the great sultan Suleyman
the Magnificent. He was the first counselor of the Sultan and married
Suleyman’s sister as the sultan ascended the throne, thus occupying a
very important place in the Ottoman palace hierarchy. After Ibrahim's
death the palace was used as a military barracks for new recruits, and
made a museum during the Republic.
Open daily between 09:30-17:00 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 518 18 05 and 06
Rahmi Koc
Industrial Museum
This museum is located in the anchor casting workshop at the docks on
the Golden Horn (Halic in Turkish), an area that symbolized
industrialization in the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. The anchor
casting workshop was built in the era of Ahmet II (1703-1730) and the
building’s foundations go back to a 12th century Byzantine
construction. It was restored under Selim III and used by the Finance
Ministry until 1951. After a fire in 1984, the building stood in ruins.
In 1991, it was bought by the Rahmi Koc Museum and Cultural Foundation,
restored and opened to the public in 1994.
On the first floor, motors and steam engines are displayed. On the
second floor are the scientific instruments and communications
apparatuses. The entrance is reserved for the aircraft department, mint
machinery for printing paper money and coins, bicycles and motorcycles,
the naval department and ship engines. In the open area, there is a
coast guard life-boat, a tram, a narrow gauge steam train, and a
vertical steam boiler. There is a submarine in the water.
Open daily between 08:30-17:00 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 256 71 53 and 54
Miniaturk
Miniaturk is also named as the "Showcase of Turkey", where you
can find many important structures of Turkey in small scales, models of
architectural masterpieces representing the Anatolian and Ottoman
civilizations.
Models of 105 historical and architectural works, all made in the scale
of 1/25, including the Library of Celsus at Ephesus, the Malabadi Bridge
in Diyarbakir, Grand Mosque of Bursa, the Tomb of Mevlana in Konya, Dome
of the Rock (Mescid-i Aksa), the Church of St. Antoine in Istanbul, the
Ottoman galley, Savarona (Ataturk's boat), the Underground Cistern
(Yerebatan), Stone houses of Mardin, Fairy chimneys of Cappadocia,
Ataturk's Mausoleum in Ankara, Aspendos theater in Antalya, Hagia Sophia
and the Maiden's Tower of Istanbul, can all be seen in one single place.
There is also a miniature railway network, a motorway with moving
vehicles, an airport with moving airplanes, thousands of human figures,
and ships sailing across the Bosphorus. These dynamic models make
Miniaturk a living park.
Built in 2003 on a 60,000-square-meter site in the Golden Horn, it is
the largest miniature city in the world and has attracted lots of
interest and is located opposite the Pierre Loti Coffee House in Eyup
district, a favorite with tourists.
Open daily between 09:00-17:00
Tel: (212) 222 28 82
Aya Sofya (Haghia Sophia) Museum
The ancient Byzantine church, built by Justinian I between 532-537 AD
after the Nika Riot, was later converted to a mosque with the addition
of minarets in mid-15th century. The remarkable structure with its 56m
high immense dome is a museum today in which you can see both Christian
and Islamic art. There are good examples of the Byzantine mosaics as
well. For about 1000 years this was the largest church in the world, and
glory of the Byzantine Empire.
Open daily between 09:30-16:30 except Mondays.
Tel: (212) 522 17 50
More museums http://www.allaboutturkey.com/ist_muze.htm
Romantic
dinner in the Golden
Horn Hotel Sultanahmet
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Turkey
Province Istanbul
Districts 25
Founded 667 BC as Byzantium
Roman rule AD 330 Constantinople
Ottoman rule 1453 as Istanbul
Area
- City 1,538.77 km˛ (594.1 sq mi)
Elevation 100 m (328 ft)
Population
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- Density 6,521/km˛ (16,889.3/sq mi)
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