Istanbul Archeology Museums, which were accustomed as Muze-i Humayun (Empire Museum) by the acclaimed artisan and architecture administrator Osman Hamdi Bey at the end of the 19th century, were opened to accessible on June 13, 1891. Besides its accent as the ‘first Turkish museum’, it has an accent and specialty getting one of the architecture barrio that are complete as a Architecture in the World. Today, it still protects its outstanding abode in the World’s better museums with its works added than a actor acceptance to assorted cultures.
In the architecture collections, there are affluent and actual important works of art acceptance to assorted civilizations from the regions from Balkans to Africa, from Anatolia and Mesopotamia to Arab Peninsula and Afghanistan that were in the borders of the Ottoman Empire.
Archeology Museum
The Archeology Architecture consists of two abstracted buildings.
I) Capital Architecture (Old Building)
Its architecture was started in 1881 by Osman Hamdi Bey and with the additions in 1902 and 1908 it acquired its latest form. Its artist is Alexander Vallaury. The alien face of the architecture was fabricated by alarming from the Iskender Tomb and Crying Women tombs. It is a admirable archetype of neoclassical barrio in Ä°stanbul.
On the high attic of the two-flat architecture there are baby rock works, pots and pans, baby terracotta statues, the Treasure Department and about 800.000 Ottoman coins, seals, decorations, medals and Non-Muslim and Muslim Bread Cabinets, in which bread moulds were kept, and a Library with about 70.000 books.
On the basal attic saloons of the building, acclaimed tombs are displayed such as Iskender Tomb, Crying Women Tomb, Satrap Tomb, Lykia Tomb, Tabnit Tomb that are in the Sayda baron graveyard.
On the basal floor, besides the affectation of tombs, there is Old Age Bronze affectation in which statues and relieves from important caper cities and regions yield place. In this display, the development of the art of bronze from Archaic Period to the Byzantium Period is displayed in archival adjustment with outstanding examples.
II) Added Architecture (New Building)
The added architecture absorbed to the southeast of the capital architecture is of 6 stories. There are depots in the two belief beneath the arena floor.
The four belief of the architecture are abiding as exhibition saloons. There is ‘Ä°stanbul for Ages’ on the aboriginal attic of the building, ‘Anatolia and Troia for Ages’ on the added attic and ‘Surrounding Cultures of Anatolia: Cyprus, Syria-Palestine’ on the top floor. There is Infant Architecture and architectural works affectation on the aboriginal attic of the added building. The Thrakia-Bithynia and Byzantium affectation saloon, which was opened in August 1998, can be visited on the attic beneath the aboriginal attic with the name of ‘Surrounding Cultures of Ä°stanbul’.
The architecture has accustomed the European Council Architecture Award in 1991, which is its 100. enactment anniversary, with the new adjustment fabricated in the lower attic saloons and the Added Architecture display.
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