Visit To Turkey

Amasya - Amasya Archaeology Museum
Amasya Museum, which displays more than 20.000 relics, handicrafts, figurines and other remains from the Hittite, Roman, Seljukid and Ottoman periods, was first founded in 1925 confined in two rooms, which ...Read More

Ankara - The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Selected the European Museum of the Year in 1997, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the hill with Ankara's ancient Citadel, in the district called Atpazari (the horse market). The Museum ...Read More

Antalya - Antalya Atatürk Museum
At the beginning of March 1930, Ataturk was in Izmir. The weather was becoming very cold. Ataturk thought of taking a rest for a week in Antalya's warm weather. On 5 March 1930, he departed from Izmir ...Read More

Antalya - Antalya Archaeology Museum
The Antalya Region has always been settled, ever since the Paleolithic Age until today. Since there are names of this region mentioned in Homer's Illiad, it is obvious that there were indigenous people ...Read More

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At the end of the First World War, during the time when Antalya was under the Italian military occupation, Italian archeologists started to remove the archeological treasures that had been found in the ...Read More

Bodrum - Museum of Underwater Archaeology
The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology was established in The Bodrum Castle in 1964. Initially, the restoration of the castle was the priority; later, exhibition halls were created in the available ...Read More

Burdur - Burdur Archaeology Museum
The ancient monuments in Burdur and its environs were formerly collected by archeologists and conserved in the library building, which is the only remaining building of the historical Bulguroğlu (Pirgulzade) ...Read More

Cappadocia - Göreme Open Air Museum

Göreme Open Air Museum

Göreme is a wide open air museum, which is under protection with Fairy Chimneys and lots of very interesting churches. The region was one of the most important centers of Christianity.

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Cesme - Cesme Archaeology Museum
One of the historical and cultural values of Cesme District worth seeing is the Cesme Fort. The Cesme Fort was constructed in 1508, during the period of Beyazit II. Cesme Archeology museum is located on ...Read More

Cesme - Castle
The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II built the castle in 1508. It bears all the characteristics of Ottoman architecture.There is a museum in the Castle. The finds unearthed in the village of Çeşme-Ildırı, ...Read More

Cesme - Caravanserai
The caravanserai, built in 1529 by Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, consists of two storeys.The rectangular structure has a central courtyard with shops, storage depots and other rooms around the perimeter. ...Read More

Corum - Corum Archaeology Museum
Çorum and its locals have been demonstrating a considerable interest in archaeology since the first initiatives of Atatürk in 1935 to launch the excavations in Alacahöyük. In addition to those of the ...Read More

Edirne - Sultan Beyazıd II The Health Museum
This museum was brought to life in Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Hospital situated in Yeniimaret quarter in the centre of Edirne. The health-museum project enabled the Trakya University to save this unique ...Read More

Erzurum - Erzurum Archeology Museum
The museum, whose items on display had been obtained in various ways from Erzurum and the surrounding cities, was put into service in 1942 in Çifte Minareli Madrasa and it moved to a new building in 1967. ...Read More

Fethiye - Fethiye Museum
The idea of exhibiting the opuses belonging to the region in a location in the district that is rich in terms of archeology belongs to the authorities of that period at the beginning of 1960s and the first ...Read More

Gaziantep - Zeugma Mosaics Museum
Zeugma is an ancient city of Commagne, currently located in the town of Nizip, forty-five kilometers away from Gaziantep. The significance of Zeugma is the Roman villas and their floor mosaics. Zeugma ...Read More

Hatay - Antakya Archaeology Museum
Archaeological excavations were started for the first time in 1932 in Antakya (Antioch) and through those excavations, various cultural and historical documents of a wide range of period from 4th thousand ...Read More

Istanbul - Anadolu Hisarı
The castle covering seven acre area and giving its name to the location was built by Sultan Beyazid I (Yildirim) as the front military station of Ottoman in 1395. The building was added "Hisarpence", ...Read More

Istanbul - Istanbul Archeology Museum
The Directorate of Istanbul Archeology Museums that is dependent on the General Directorate of Monuments and Museums of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Turkey is on the Osman Hamdi Bey Ascent ...Read More

Istanbul - Caria Museum
Kariye is located at Edirnekapı section of İstanbul. The dictionary meaning of Kariye (Caria) is "outside of the city", or "rural" in old Greek. The existence of a chapel outside ...Read More

Istanbul - Fethiye Museum (Pammakaristos)
It is in Fatih - Carsamba quarter of Istanbul. It is Pammakaristos monastery church constructed in Byzantine Period. A grave chapel has been added with the end of the Latin invasion in 13th century. After ...Read More

Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Museum
Hagia Sophia is considered a unique monument in world architecture, and it's magnificence and functionality has been a good example in construction of countless Ottoman mosques. Hagia Sophia with its exceptional ...Read More

Istanbul - Hagia Sophia Museum Mahmut I Library
It is located between two wall supports at the southern part of Ayasophia. It is an interesting product of Turkish construction and decorative arts. It was built by Sultan Mahmud I in 1739. The library ...Read More

Istanbul - Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature
The Galata Mevlevi Lodge (mevlevihane) or as it is also known the Kulekapi Mevlevi Lodge which is now serving as a museum, is one of the institutions which reflect the culture of the era in the best possible ...Read More

Istanbul - Rahmi M. Koc Museum
The M. Rahmi Koc Museum is situated on the north side of Halic (Golden Horn). It includes a new, largely underground, building as well as the historical 'foundry' (Lengerhane) on the southwest part of ...Read More

Istanbul - Rumelihisar Museum
Located within borders of Sariyer district and gave its name to the location, covering 30.000 m2 area. There is a monument-art built in the narrowest and flowing(600m) section of the Istanbul Bosphoreus ...Read More

Istanbul - Sadberk Hanım Museum
The Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanim Museum occupies two separate buildings. The original building is a three-story (plus an attic) wooden mansion that is generally believed to have been built in the ...Read More

Istanbul - Small St. Sofia
Small St. Sofia Mosque is located between Cankurtaran and Kadirga quarters in Eminonu District, 20 km away from the southern seaside of Mediterranean ramparts. Although it is stated in some sources that ...Read More

Istanbul - The Great Palace Mosaic Museum
In ancient times, the palatial hill from the Sea of Marmara to the Hippodrome. The palatial district extended from Hagia Sophia and the Hippodrome to the cost line, where the sea wall acted as a mighty ...Read More

Istanbul - Topkapı Palace Museum
It is located on the promontory of the historical peninsula in Istanbul which overlooks both the Marmara Sea and the Bosphorus. The walls enclosing the palace grounds, the main gate on the land side and ...Read More

Istanbul - Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
Turkish and Islamic Works Museum is the first Turkish museum covering the Turkish and Islamic art works wholly. The establishment works that have been started at the end of 19th century have been completed ...Read More

Istanbul - Yedikule Hisarı
Yedikule hisari or shortly Yedikule, being one of important architectural arts of Istanbul is on the south of city land water and under authority of Directorate of Hisarlar Museum in the same town.The ...Read More

Istanbul - İstanbul Museum of Modern Art
İstanbul Modern is the first private museum devoted to modern and contemporary art in Turkey. As it strengths the creative exchange between the art of Turkey and the West, it presents the artistic and ...Read More

Izmir - Izmir - Agora Museum
Izmir Agora MuseumEtymologically, agora means Public Square and shopping district. Agora, which has commercial, judicial and political functions, is a place where the art activities increases, the background ...Read More

Izmir - Izmir - Ataturk Museum
Izmir - Ataturk Museum The building is in Izmir, I. Kordon (Ataturk Boulevard) built in between 1875-1880 by a carpet merchant, Takfor, as a resident. It was nationalized after abandoned by its owner on ...Read More

Izmir - Izmir Archaeology Museum
The first archaeology museum in İzmir was opened to visit in 1927 at Ayavukla (Gözlü) Church in the district of Tepecik. The second museum was founded in 1951 at the Culture Park. However, since the ...Read More

Konya - Konya Archaeology Museum
The archeology museum has been opened for the first time in the building that is at the southwestern corner of Karma Secondary School in 1901. In 1927, the works have been moved to Mevlana Museum and in ...Read More

Konya - Konya Atatürk Museum
The two-storeyed historical building that has been built in 1912 on Atatürk Street is made of cut, rubble stone and bricks. The house, which has been registered in 1923 in the name of treasury, has been ...Read More

Konya - Karatay (Encaustic Tile Works) Museum
Madrasa is located in Karatay District, Ferhuniye Quarter, Adliye Boulevard, in the north of Aladdin Hill.Karatay Madrasa has been constructed by Emir Celaleddin Karatay in Sultan İzzeddin Keykavus II ...Read More

Konya - Sircali Madrasa (Grave Monuments) Museum
Sircali Madrasa has been used as madrasa in Seljuk and Ottoman periods. The student rooms of the madrasa, which has been left in 17th century have been destroyed. In 19th century, education has been continued ...Read More

Konya - Sille Aya - Elena Church
Sille is a residence unit that is 7 km to the city centre, connected to Selçuk District of Konya Province. 327 years after the birth of Christ, mother of Byzantine Emperor Helena has stopped at Konya ...Read More

Konya - Ince Minaret (Stone and Wooden Works) Museum
It is in Konya Province, Selçuklu District, in the west of Alaeddin Hill. It has been constructed by Vizier Sahip Ata Fahreddin Ali in the term of Seljuk Sultan İzzeddin Keykavuz the 2nd, for providing ...Read More

Konya - Ethnography Museum
The building, which has been constructed for education purposes, is opened to service as Ethnography Museum in 1975. In the basement of the three - floored building, photography section, archive, goods ...Read More

Konya - Eregli Museum
In Ereğli Museum, which has been established in 1968, 8096 cultural assets are exhibited. Annual average visitor number is 10900. The museum has a large open exhibition, but closed exhibition is made ...Read More

Konya - Mevlana Museum
Mevlana Dergahı (Dervish Lodge) which is presently used as a museum formerly the Rose Garden of the Seljuks Palace it was given as a gift to Mevlana's father Sultanü'l-Ulema Bahaaeddin Veled by Sultan ...Read More

Konya - Aksehir Museums
The first settling findings of Aksehir, which has always been a settlement center in the history, have been found in the Neolithic Age as a result of the surface researches. From that period to now, it ...Read More

Nigde - Nigde Archaelogical Museum
Having gone through a long, effortful restoration process, the Archaeological Museum of Niğde was reopened in 2001 in its renovated building and was nominated by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism ...Read More

Sanli Urfa - Sanliurfa Museum
Urfa is rich for its history and historical works and finds.Firstly, National Education Director Avni Günal offered the construction of Urfa Museum in 1948. In December 8, 1967 the museum construction ...Read More

Side - Side Archaeology Museum
Located in Side town of Manavgat District. 8 km. from Manavgat. Ancient agora bath from A.D. 5-6th centuries, dating from Roman Age, was restored in 1960/61 and converted into a museum. The majority of ...Read More

Sinop - Sinop Archaeology Museum
One of the earliest attempts at building museums in modern Turkey was the Sinop Archaeology Museum in 1921. The museum moved to its current building in 1970. Found in the surroundings of Sinop, particularly ...Read More

Tekirdag - Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography
The ancient name of Tekirdağ is Bizanthe and the town has acquired its contemporary name from the Tekfur Mountain in the southwest. Tekirdağ Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography is founded in 1967 ...Read More