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Cartoon Museum

Art, Museums

Set in a beautiful 17th-century medrese, this is one of the city's more unusual museums. Where instructors once lectured students in Islamic philosophy, they now give lessons...

Kavacılar Sokak 12
FREE

Istanbul Modern

Critics' Choice
Art, Museums

Istanbul's long-awaited contemporary art museum, Istanbul Modern, opened in its doors in December 2004. Housed in a former customs warehouse on the waterfront in Karaköy, which...

Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi

Mimar Sinan University Museum of Fine Arts

Art, Museums

The decrepit state of this poorly signposted museum, housed in a waterside mansion, suggests that few visitors find their way here. Shame, because the collection of Turkish art...

Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa Iskelesi Sokak
FREE

Museum of Turkish & Islamic Art

Art, Museums

Overlooking the Hippodrome, the museum occupies the restored 16th-century palace of Ibrahim Paşa. A Greek convert to Islam, Ibrahim was the confidant of Süleyman I and in 1523...

At Meydanı 46
Major venue

Sakıp Sabancı Museum

Art, Museums

Owned by one of Turkey's wealthiest businessmen, this museum is housed in a fabulous villa right on the shores of the Bosphorus, built for Egyptian royalty in the 1920s. The...

Istinye Caddesi 42
Major venue