Best Museums in Istanbul
Istanbul Archeology Museum
Istanbul Archeology Museum was built as the first museum of the Ottoman Empire. With more than one million artifacts, the museum is among the largest museums in the world. Osman Hamdi Bey, who had a lot of effort in its establishment. He brought many artifacts from his excavation. Artifacts such as the Alexander Sarcophagus, the Crying Women's Sarcophagus, and the Lycian Sarcophagus are still on display. In addition, the museum has been renovated in recent years. The works kept in the warehouse were also opened to the exhibition. The most important of these is the Sappho statue.
Topkapı Palace
The palace, which was used by the Ottoman Empire as the goverment center of the empire for 400 years, is open to visitors as a museum today and there are many artifacts exhibited in it.
Note: It is closed on Tuesday.
Pera Museum
In 2005, the historical Bristol Hotel was rebuilt as a museum by architect Sinan Genim. Its founders are the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. There are orientalist paintings in the museum. One of the them is famous painting "The Tortoise Trainer". It also hosts works on a variety of subjects and thematic exhibitions most of the year.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
Basilica Cistern (Yerebatan Sarnıcı)
The Basilica Cistern is reopened after the restoration process. Cistern is one of the most magnificent structures in Istanbul worth seeing. The building is also known as the Basilica Cistern because there was a basilica once, where the cistern is located. When it reopened, some modern art was added inside and it also hosts some shows and performances.
Istanbul Modern Art Museum (Istanbul Modern)
Founded by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) in 2004, the museum is regarded as Turkey's first modern art museum. The museum's collection includes productions in the fields of modern art, painting, sculpture, photography, design, architecture and new media.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture was established in 1937 with the aim of protecting and presenting major works of modern art in Turkey. The building was transformed of the Warehouse No. 5 on the Karaköy coast. It includes the 19th century painting and sculpture art and the major works of the early 20th century.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
National Palaces Painting Museum
Opened in 2014, the museum draws attention both with its architecture and its artifacts. In the museum, paintings are exhibited in 30 halls.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
Sakıp Sabancı Museum
The museum was established in 1998 to allocate the Atlı Köşk building to Sabancı University. It hosts the works of many famous artists with temporary exhibitions.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
Rahmi M. Koç Museum
It was opened in 1994 with the support of businessman Rahmi Koç; It is the first important museum dedicated to the history of industry, transportation, industry and communication.
Note: It is closed on Monday.
The Museum of Innocence
The museum with the same name was made from the book Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk. It draws attention as it is the only museum created based on a novel. Don't go without reading the book because you can't understand the pieces.
Istanbul Toy Museum
The Toy Museum, founded by the Akın couple in 2005, is a museum where the most popular examples in the history of toys have been exhibited for the last 300 years. Sunay Akın bought toys from more than 40 countries in 20 years in order to establish this museum.
It is Turkey's largest maritime museum. The museum, which was established in the last years of the Ottoman Empire, still open today. There are more than twenty thousand works. Some of those; boat, sailor clothes, manuscripts, ship models, flags, maps, paintings, coats of arms, weapons.
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