Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art ( Turk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi, İbrahim Paşa Sarayi ) is located in the historical center of Istanbul at the Hippodrome, opposite the Blue Mosque.
History
The museum is now in the Ibrahim Pasha Palace, the Magnificent, gave his vizier İbrahim Pasha beginning of the 16th century. Sultan Suleiman I, called After his death in 1536, the building served as the winter quarters of the Janitscharenschule, diplomatic residence, financial center, sewing room and prison before it was abandoned and gradually fell into disrepair.
In 1970 it was restored and houses since 1983, the museum was founded in 1914 of Turkish and Islamic Art, the previously housed in the soup kitchen ( imaret ) of the Suleymaniye Mosque, and the first museum of Islamic art was the Ottoman Empire. The museum received in 1984 a prize of Europe and in 1985 UNESCO prize.
Collection
The museum contains a rich collection of almost all eras of Islamic art, and almost all the regions from the 7th century to the 20th century.
The museum contains the world's most extensive and due to their quality of one of the most important collections of carpets with about 1700 carpets, kilims and numerous. Besides rare Seljuk carpets, the collection includes the so-called known as Holbein carpets in western specimens, as well as famous Usak carpets and Saray.
In addition, the museum displays illuminated manuscripts, calligraphy, Korans, Persian miniature paintings, including the famous biography of the Prophet " Siyer -i Nebi " of Sayyid Suleiman Kasim Pasha or the " Zubdat at- Tawarich " by Sayyid Loqman Asuri, as- Sayyid Lutfi, Molla Kasim and Ustad Osman, Tughras, Ottoman Ebrukunst, chancery script, etc. of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Tulunids, Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, Mongol, Turkmen, Timurid, Safavid, Qajar, Seljuk, Anatolian beyliks and Ottomans.
A rich wood carving collection ranges from the 9th century on extremely rare Seljuk exhibits to the Ottoman period, including Koran stand, Minbar, doors, columns and furniture.
The stone works usually contain calligraphy of the Umayyads, Abbasids, Mamluks, Seljuks and Ottomans. But there are also some remarkable image works and reliefs, especially among the Seljuk showing figurative, such as hunting scenes and riders or mythical creatures such as Sphinx, Griffin, Dragon, etc.
In the ceramics department is next to Iznik ceramics, faience, mosaic and plaster art and ceramic goods of Samarra (Iraq), Kashan (Iran), Raqqa (Syria ), Aleppo, the Seljuks and Ottomans shown to Kütahyaware and Çanakkaleware. Rounding out this fine collection with a glass collection, starting with works from the 9th century, glass lights over the Mamluk to Ottoman Rosenwasserfläschen.
The metalwork of the museum allow visitors to gain a rare overview of a development of 800 years, from Almohad astrolabes, over the famous Seljuk door knocker in the shape of dragons, Anatolian candlesticks, Mamluk basin, up to the Ottoman turban jewels, incense containers, cans, standards and place settings.
In the ethnological department of the museum living spaces and facilities of all Turkish ethnic groups are shown in different eras. Furthermore, they offer temporary showrooms national and international special place.