The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art is the First Turkish Museum that encompasses Turkish and Islamic Art works collectively. The museum is also the last museum opened in the Ottoman Empire Period.
The reason for the establishment of the museum was that important buildings from mosques, masjids, lodges, lodges and tombs, which are foundation buildings, were stolen. The museum, which was opened in the Suleymaniye Imaret Building, moved to the Ibrahim Pasha Palace in the Fatih district, where it is located, in 1983.
In the museum; Precious works of Turkish and Islamic communities from Umayyads to Seljuks, Abbasids to Safavids are on display. Here you can see 15 thousand volumes of manuscript collections, a unique carpet collection, and more than 40 thousand works of stone ceramics, wood and minerals.
Reflecting the public life and culture of the Turkish-Islamic Arts Museum; It has a total of seven sections: Wooden Works, Ceramics and Glass, Metal Art, Ethnography, Stone Art, Carpet and Manuscripts and Calligraphy.
Entrance Fee: 50 TL
Summer Period (01 April-31 October): 09:00-19:00
Winter Period (01 November-31 March): 09:00-18:00
- Monday is closed.
