İstanbul’s answer to the British Museum or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the Archaeology Museum (closed Mondays, admission fee),…
The Ottoman golden years are usually seen as stretching from 1453, when Sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople from the Byzantines, to 1571, when…
Born in İstanbul in 1850, the prolific architect Alexandre Vallaury was the son of a renowned pastry cook almost certainly of French…
In the past a visit to a Turkish museum was often a demoralising experience. You would step through the door to find a…