Istanbul Topkapi Palace Museum – Chapter 1
Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul is one of the world’s largest museums. The palace is located in the oldest part of the city, which today is called Sarayburnu and is one of the seven hills of Istanbul, where there are the remains of several buildings from the Byzantine and pre […]
The Museums of Icel and Isparta in Turkey
The Museums of Isparta and Icel in Turkey, THE MUSEUMS OF ICEL Erdemli Museum: In 1963 a building was rented and used to store museum objects from the surrounding region, in Erdemli in the province of Icel. In 1968 the objects were moved to a more suitable building where a portion of them were put […]
Hatay Archaeology Museum in Antakya Turkey
Hatay Archaeology Museum Antakya, Hatay Archaeology Museum is in Antakya. Construction of the building began in 1934 on the recommendation of the French archaeologist, M. Prost, and was completed in 1938. When in 1939 the province of Hatay was reunited with Turkey the museum came under Turkish control. It was reorganized and reopened in 1948. […]
Eskisehir Ataturk & Culture Museum and Eskisehir Museums
Eskisehir Ataturk & Culture Museum and Yunus Emre Museum, Eskisehir Ataturk and Culture Museum: The building which originally housed the Appeal Court and Adalet Primary School in Eskisehir was turned into the Ataturk and Culture Museum in 1970. The first section of the museum is reserved for objects concerning Ataturk, in order to keep alive […]
The Chapel of St. Basil and Elmali Church in Goreme Open Air Museum
The Chapel of St. Basil and Elmali Church in Goreme Open Air Museum, The Chapel of St. Basil It is on the left side of the fountain, just opposite to the entrance. Its entrance is full of graves and the paintings are of the 11th century. The only aisle of the chapel is rectangular, with […]
The Museums of Eskisehir in Turkey
The Museums of Eskisehir, Eskisehir’s first museum was established as a depot in 1945 in Alaeddin Mosque and later moved to the medrese and boy’s school in the precincts of Kursunlu Mosque. Because the buildings housing the museum works were unsuitable for exhibiting them, a new building was constructed in Akarbasi in Eskisehir, which was […]
Erzurum Congress Museum in Turkey
Erzurum Congress Museum On July 3, 1919, at the time of preparation for the National Liberation War, Ataturk arrived in Erzurum from Sivas. On the night of July 8-9, he sent a telegraph to the last Ottoman Sultan, Vandettin announcing that he resigned from the military and had returned to “the bosom of the nation”. […]
The Museums of Erzurum in Turkey
The Museums of Erzurum, Erzurum Museum was first housed in the Yakutiye, an old Seljuk building, in 1942. In 1947 it was moved to the Cifte Minareli Medrese (Two Minareted Medrese), and remained there until 1967 when it was moved to a new museum building, construction of which had begun in 1965. The museum was […]
St. Barbara Church and Yilanli Church in Goreme Open Air Museum
St. Barbara Church and Yilanli Church in Goreme Open Air Museum, St. Barbara Church It is a small church with two columns ends a small dome. The walls are full of ‘and only painted decorations and Christ is painted in the central apse. On the northern Nall St. George and St. Theodore are represented slaying […]
Gaziantep Museum and The Museum of Elazig in Turkey
Gaziantep Museum and The Museum of Elazig, THE MUSEUMS OF ELAZIG Elazig Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum: Elazig Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum was established in a temporary building in 1965. One of the rooms of the museum, now a store room, is reserved for archaeological works and contains earthenware pottery, idols, figurines, marble statues and pieces, […]
