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Pera Museum
A gallery off the main route · Istanbul, Turkey
Photo: Tatiana Matlina · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
A private art museum opened in 2005 by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, housed in the restored 19th-century Hotel Bristol building in Tepebaşı. Its permanent holdings include Orientalist painting — most famously Osman Hamdi Bey's 'The Tortoise Trainer' — along with Kütahya tiles and a collection of Anatolian weights and measures. Upper floors carry rotating temporary exhibitions.
A quiet, well-lit historic mansion of a museum that rewards a slow, unhurried wander.
Orientalist collectionhistoric mansioncalm gallerieslate Friday hours
Where it is
Istanbul, Turkey · Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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