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Travel Guide of the Coast of Mediterranean Sea by Cruise Ship

The Mediterranean is an extremely popular cruising itinerary, offering fantastic historical sites, delicious cuisines, warm beaches, a vibrant nightlife, and more. As the most beautiful open air museum, cruising the Mediterranean means coming within reach of the best in culture, tradition and monuments that have for centuries enriched its shores.…

Travel Guide of the Coast of Mediterranean Sea by Cruise Ship

Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Pera Museum is an art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of the Beyoğlu (Pera) district in Istanbul, Turkey, located at Meşrutiyet Avenue No. 65 (adjacent to İstiklal Avenue and in close proximity to Taksim Square.) It has a particular focus on Orientalism in 19th-century art. The Pera Museum opened its…

Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection, Pera Museum

The beginnings of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection date back to 1980s. Today the collection consists of over 800 pieces representing various periods, especially the 18th – 20th centuries. The limited number of pieces on display have been chosen to give a general idea…

Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection, Pera Museum

Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum

The Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection comprises over ten thousand pieces and consists of objects dating from prehistory to those used in present day Anatolia. These comprise the main types of scales and measuring instruments, used for measuring weight, length, and volume in every field, from land measurement to commerce,…

Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum

Orientalist Painting Collection, Pera Museum

Pera Museum’s Orientalist Painting Collection consists of works by European and Ottoman/Turkish artists, including works by Osman Hamdi Bey and his most famous painting, The Tortoise Trainer. Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection Throughout the ages, the Orient has attracted the interest of the West. European intellectuals and artists have…

Orientalist Painting Collection, Pera Museum

Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

The Rezan Has Museum is a private museum in Istanbul, Turkey dedicated to culture and arts. Rezan Has, spouse of the wealthy Turkish businessman Kadir Has, founded the museum in May 2007. The museum, situated in a historical building, is located in Cibali neighborhood of Fatih district on the southern…

Rezan Has Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Collection of Furniture and Decorative Arts, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Three rooms on the entry level of the Atlı Köşk mansion are preserved with the furnishings and objects of decorative art of the 18th and 19th centuries that were in use during the period when the Sabancı Family resided there. The historical building belonged to several high ranked pasha families…

Collection of Furniture and Decorative Arts, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Sakıp Sabancı’s collection of calligraphic works by famous calligraphers, Korans and illuminated manuscripts began with the purchase of a levha (calligraphic panel) by Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-39). During the 1980s, the Sakıp Sabancı collection expanded with the purchase of private collections, and from 1989 onwards, the collection was exhibited…

The Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Istanbul Research Institute, Turkey

As manifested through Pera Museum founded in 2005, İstanbul Research Institute is the second significant step in the wide spectrum of culture and arts projects Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation has pioneered since its establishment in 2003, in the fields of culture, arts, education and healthcare. The renowned capital of…

Istanbul Research Institute, Turkey

Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey

The İstanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey’s first private museum to organize modern and contemporary art exhibitions, was founded in 2004 and occupies an 8,000 square meter site on the shores of the Bosphorus. The museum is located on the Bosphorus in the Tophane neighborhood, in a converted warehouse that…

Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey

Museum of Innocence, Turkey

The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a novel by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book, set in Istanbul between 1975 and 1984, is an account of the love story between the wealthy businessman Kemal and a poorer distant relative of his, Füsun.…

Museum of Innocence, Turkey

Rezan Has Museum, Turkey

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 structure dated back to 17th century and Byzantine cistern to 11th century. The Museum enriched its collection…

Rezan Has Museum, Turkey

SALT Turkey

SALT is a Turkish contemporary art institution It was started by Vasif Kortun and Garanti Bank in 2011, and has exhibition and workshop spaces in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey It combines the previous activities of the Garanti Gallery, the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre and the Platform Garanti Contemporary…

SALT Turkey

Sakıp Sabancı Museum Turkey

Sabancı University’s Sakıp Sabancı Museum is located in Emirgan, at one of Istanbul’s oldest settlements on the Bosphorus. In 1927, Prince Mehmed Ali Hasan of the Hidiv family of Egypt commissioned the Italian architect Edouard De Nari to build the villa, now the museum’s main building, and it was used…

Sakıp Sabancı Museum Turkey

HiSoUR – Hi So You Are

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