List of museums and monuments in Istanbul

This list of museums and monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, includes the relevant architectural entities within Istanbul's city limits.

(in alphabetical order; Turkish-language name in parentheses where appropriate)

Castles and palaces

• Anadoluhisarı
• Beylerbeyi Palace
• Boukoleon Palace
• Dolmabahçe Palace
• Great Palace of Constantinople
• Küçüksu Pavilion
• Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfur Sarayı)
• Rumelihisarı
• Tekfur Palace (Tekfur Sarayı) (see Palace of the Porphyrogenitus)
• Topkapı Palace
• Yıldız Palace

Monuments

• Aviation Martyrs' Monument
• Column of Constantine (also known as the Burnt Column) (Çemberlitaş sütunu)
• Column of the Goths (Gotlar Sütunu)
• Column of Marcian (Kıztaşı, meaning "column of the girl")
• Milion, a mile-marker monument used for measuring the distances between the city (when known as Constantinople) and other cities of the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
• Monument of Liberty
• Republic Monument
• Serpent Column

Museums

• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library
• Doğançay Museum, contemporary-art museum
• Galatasaray Museum
• Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi)
• Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri)
• Istanbul Aviation Museum (İstanbul Havacılık Müzesi)
• Istanbul Military Museum (İstanbul Askeri Müze)
• Istanbul Modern Art Museum (İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi)
• Istanbul Naval Museum (İstanbul Deniz Müzesi)
• Istanbul Postal Museum (PTT İstanbul Müzesi)
• İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum (İstanbul Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi)
• Istanbul Toy Museum (İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi)
• Istanbul UFO Museum (İstanbul UFO Müzesi)
• Istanbul Cinema Museum (İstanbul Sinema Müzesi)
• Istanbul Zoology Museum
• Museum of the Ancient Orient (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))
• Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature
• Museum of Illumination and Heating Appliances (Aydınlatma ve Isıtma Araçları Müzesi)
• The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi)
• Museum of Islamic Art (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))
• Panorama 1453 History Museum
• Pera Museum
• Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
• Rahmi M Koç Museum
• Rezan Has Museum
• Sadberk Hanım Museum
• Sakıp Sabancı Museum
• SALT
• SantralIstanbul (includes the SantralIstanbul Museum of Energy and a modern-art museum)
• TGC Press Media Museum (Basın Müzesi)
• Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi)

Religious buildings

• Arap Mosque (Dominican Church of St. Paul)
• Blue Mosque (popular name for the Sultan Ahmed Mosque)
• Bodrum Mosque (Myrelaion)
• Bulgarian St. Stephen Church (also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church) (Sveti Stefan Kilisesi)
• Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (also known as the St. Esprit Cathedral)
• Chora Church (Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii or Kariye Kilisesi — the Chora Museum, Mosque or Church, respectively)
• Fatih Mosque
• Fenari Isa Mosque (Theotokos tou Libos)
• Fethiye Museum (see Pammakaristos Church)
• Hagia Irene (Aya İrini)
• Hagia Sophia
• Kalenderhane Mosque (Theotokos Kyriotissa)
• Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex
• Little Hagia Sophia (Ss. Sergius and Bacchus Church)
• Monastery of Stoudios
• Mosque of the Stablemaster (İmrahor Camii) (see Monastery of Stoudios)
• Ortaköy Mosque
• Pammakaristos Church
• Rüstem Pasha Mosque
• St. Esprit Cathedral (see Cathedral of the Holy Spirit)
• Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque (Sokollu Pasa Camii)
• Süleymaniye Mosque
• Sultan Ahmed Mosque (popularly known as the Blue Mosque)
• Zeyrek Mosque (Church of Christos Pantokrator)

Others

• Galata Mevlevihanesi (Galata Convent of the Whirling Dervishes)
• Galata Tower
• The Gate of Galatasaray High School
• Hippodrome of Constantinople
• Walls of Constantinople
• Yedikule (Seven Towers) Castle

Related lists

• List of architectural structures in Istanbul
• List of columns and towers in Istanbul
• List of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul
• List of Istanbulites
• List of libraries in Istanbul
• List of mayors of Istanbul
• List of schools in Istanbul
• List of urban centers in Istanbul
• List of universities in Istanbul

External links

Media related to Istanbul at Wikimedia Commons