Odunpazarı
Odunpazarı, Eskişehir’s Ottoman quarter: painted timber houses, Kengo Kuma’s Modern Museum, the Kurşunlu complex, meerschaum and…
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Museums
Museums across Turkey, from large provincial archaeology museums to single-site collections beside the ruins they came from. In many cases the best finds from a site are not at the site at all but in the nearest city museum, which is worth knowing before you plan a day.
This category lists 8 places in Türkiye on istambul.com, including Misis Mosaic Museum, Aksaray Museum, Afyon Archeology Museum, Adiyaman Museum, Adana Archeology Museum, Goreme Open Air Museum, Miniaturk and Hagia Sophia.
Ordu
Ordu travel guide: Boztepe cable car, Paşaoğlu Mansion, Cape Jason, Ünye Castle, Perşembe yayla, local food…
Paşaoğlu Mansion
Paşaoğlu Mansion in Ordu: an 1896 stone house built with Ünye stone and Romanian timber, now…
Prusias ad Hypium
Prusias ad Hypium at Konuralp, Düzce: the Forty Steps theatre for 10,000 people, city walls, the…
Rákóczi Museum
Rákóczi Museum in Tekirdağ: the house where Francis II Rákóczi lived in exile from 1720 to…
Samsun
Samsun travel guide: the 1919 Bandırma landing, Kızılırmak Delta birdwatching, Amisos Hill, the wooden Göğceli Mosque,…
Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum
Şanlıurfa Archaeology and Mosaic Museum: the Urfa Man, Göbeklitepe finds and replica, and the Amazon mosaics…
Şanlıurfa
Şanlıurfa travel guide: Göbeklitepe, Balıklıgöl, Harran’s beehive houses, Halfeti, the mosaic museum, Urfa food, how to…
Sinop Historical Prison
Sinop Historical Prison, built in 1887 inside the inner citadel and reopened as a museum in…
Sinop
Sinop travel guide: the historic prison museum, Greek walls, Hamsilos inlet, Tatlıca Waterfalls and Sarıkum, and…
Sivas
Sivas travel guide: the UNESCO-listed Divriği Great Mosque, Seljuk madrasas, the 1919 Congress, Kangal’s fish spring,…
Şırnak
Şırnak travel guide: Mount Cudi and the Noah tradition, Cizre’s Great Mosque, Red Madrasa and Mem…
Söğüt
Söğüt in Bilecik, cradle of the Ottoman state: Ertuğrul Gazi’s tomb, the Ertuğrul Gazi Museum, the…
Tekirdağ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum
Tekirdağ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum: finds from 4500 BC on, Roman and Byzantine stones in the…
Tekirdağ
Tekirdağ travel guide: Rüstem Paşa Mosque, the Rákóczi Museum, Şarköy and Mürefte wine country, beaches, Tekirdağ…
Termal
Termal hot springs near Yalova: Byzantine-origin Kurşunlu and Valide baths, the open-air pool, Atatürk’s 1928 mansion,…
Tokat
Tokat travel guide: Gök Medrese, Taşhan and the Seljuk old town, Ballıca Cave, Niksar and Sebastopolis,…
Trabzon
Trabzon travel guide: Sumela Monastery, the Hagia Sophia of Trebizond, Uzungöl and the high plateaus, with…
Uşak Archaeology Museum
Uşak Archaeology Museum and the Karun Treasure: Lydian gold looted in 1966, returned from the Met…
Uşak
Uşak travel guide: the Karun Treasure of Lydian gold, Ulubey Canyon and its glass terrace, Blaundos,…
Yakutiye Madrasa
Yakutiye Madrasa in Erzurum: the 1310 Ilkhanid college with its carved lion portal and tiled minaret,…
Yalova
Yalova travel guide: Termal hot springs, Atatürk’s mansion and Yürüyen Köşk, Karaca Arboretum, Sudüşen Waterfall, beaches,…
Yürüyen Köşk
Yürüyen Köşk in Yalova: the house Atatürk had moved 4.80 m on rails in 1930 rather…
Zeugma Mosaic Museum
Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep: the Gypsy Girl, Dionysos and Ariadne and whole Roman villa floors…
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