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İstanbul Archaeology Museum

Following the proclamation of the Republic, Turkish museums developed considerably, mainly due to the importance Atatürk had attached to the research and exhibition of artifacts of Anatolia. When the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed, there were only the İstanbul Archaeology Museum called the "Asar-ı Atika Müzesi", the Istanbul Military Museum housed in the St. Irene Church, the Islamic Museum (Evkaf-ı Islamiye Müzesi) in the Suleymaniye Complex in Istanbul and the smaller museums of the Ottoman Empire Museum (Müze-i Humayun) in a few large cities of Anatolia.

The Turkish Archaeological Museum (Türk Asar-ı Atikası), which was established during the first years of the Republic, carried out studies to gather, collate, catalogue and protect archaeological and ethnographical finds. In many provinces of Anatolia, monumental buildings such as ancient churches, mosques and caravanserais were restored and converted into museums. Topkapı Palace, which was converted into a museum with the furniture and works of art on the premises, was opened to the public in 1927. The same year, the Islamic Museum was reorganized as the "Museum of Turkish and Islamic Works of Art" and the Mevlana Dervish Lodge in Konya was also converted into a museum.

The construction of the Ankara Ethnographical Museum, the first building designed as a museum, was completed in 1930. New museums were established in Bursa, Adana, Manisa, İzmir, Kayseri, Antalya, Afyon, Bergama, and Edirne. The Hittite Museum, which was established in the Mahmut Pasha Bedesten in Ankara in 1940, was restored and renovated and converted into " Museum of Anatolian Civilizations" in 1968.

Today, there are 99 museum directorates attached to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 151 private museums in 36 provinces and 1,204 private collections. [1]

List of museums

Adana

Adana Archaeological Museum

Adıyaman

Afyonkarahisar

Aksaray

Amasya Museum

Ankara

Seated Woman of Çatal Höyük: the head is a restoration, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations [2]

Antalya

Greek female statue at Alanya Archaeological Museum

Artvin

Aydın

Balıkesir

Bartın

Batman

Bayburt

Bilecik

Bolu

Burdur

Bursa

Çanakkale

Troy Museum
Interior of Troy Museum

Çankırı

Denizli

Diyarbakır

Düzce

Odunpazarı Modern Arts Museum by the architect Kengo Kuma at Eskişehir

Edirne

Elazığ

Erzincan

Eskişehir

Gaziantep

Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Giresun

Hatay

King Suppiluliuma

Isparta

Iğdır

Iğdır Genocide Memorial and Museum

İstanbul

Ceremonial Hall at Dolmabahçe Palace, with the chandelier said to have been given by Queen Victoria
Crystal Staircase with Baccarat crystal banisters and chandelier at Dolmabahçe Palace

İzmir

Kahramanmaraş

Karaman

Karabük

Kars

Kastamonu

Kayseri

Kırıkkale

Kırşehir

Kilis

Kocaeli

Konya

Marble Sarcophagus, typical of Pamphylia. Roman period III century AD at the Konya Archaeological Museum
Mevlana Museum (1274) is the resting place of the Sufi mystic and poet Rumi in Konya, the capital of the Anatolian Seljuk Sultanate.

Kütahya

Malatya

Manisa

Mardin

Mersin

Mersin Archaeological Museum
Mersin Archaeological Museum

Muğla

Nevşehir

Niğde

Ordu

Osmaniye

Rize

Sakarya

Samsun

Sinop

Sivas

Sivas Congress and Ethnography Museum

Şanlıurfa

Tekirdağ

Tokat

Trabzon

Trabzon Museum

Uşak

Yozgat

References

  1. ^ "Türkiye özel müze zengini". Sabah (in Turkish). 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2013-03-04.
  2. ^ As noted in Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 2005: illustration, fig. 1.16;