Pera Museum is a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2005 by the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation.The museum is housed in a renovated historical building, which was originally constructed in 1893 by the architect Achille Manoussos in the Tepebasi neighborhood of Istanbul. The building is one of the most significant in Pera and served as the Bristol Hotel for a long period. Pera Museum’s permanent collections include the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation’s collection of Orientalist art, which consists of more than three hundred paintings. This rich collection brings together important works by European artists inspired by the Ottoman world from the 17th century to the early 19th. The collection, which presents a vast visual panorama of the last two centuries of the Ottoman Empire, includes works by Osman Hamdi Bey, regarded by art historians as the genre’s only “native Orientalist” including his most famous painting The Tortoise Trainer. Other notable permanent collections are Anatolian weights and measures, Kutahya tiles and ceramics. Istanbul sightseeing tours.
GPS travel coordinates: 40°59’20.14″N, 28°42’15.28″E
Nov 242008
