Pera Museum

Pera Museum is a private museum that was established in 2005 by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation to provide a wide range of quality and cultural services. It has been one of the landmarks of Beyoğlu since the day it was founded.

Pera Museum, History, Architectural Structure, Artifacts

It operates in the building, which was built as a contemporary and well-equipped museum, preserving the facade of the historical Bristol Hotel in Tepebaşı within the framework of the project prepared by the restorer architect Sinan Genim between 2003 and 2005.

“Orientalist Painting”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures” and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics” collections belonging to the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation and the values these collections represent; Pera Museum, which shares it with the public through exhibitions, publishing products, oral activities, film screenings, learning programs and scientific studies, and aims to pass it on to future generations, also hosts important names of world art with its periodic exhibitions.

Among them are the Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, St. Petersburg Russian State Museum, JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York School of Visual Arts, and Maeght Foundation, the Pera Museum produces joint projects with the world’s leading museums, collections and foundations. , Josef Koudelka, Joan Miró, Akira Kurosawa, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Fernando Botero, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Goya, Manolo Valdés, Andy Warhol, Cecil Beaton, Alberto Giacometti, Giorgio de Chirico, Sergey Parajanov. brought our country together with art lovers. Pera Museum, which has been organizing exhibitions supporting young artists every year since its opening, in cooperation with national and international education and art institutions, enriches all its exhibitions with books, oral activities and learning programs. Standing out with its periodical programs and events, Pera Film organizes comprehensive screenings for visitors and cinema enthusiasts, ranging from classics to independent films, animations and documentaries, sometimes parallel to exhibitions.

Pera Museum, which has become one of the most qualified, pioneering and popular museums in Turkey with the activities it has carried out since its establishment, serves as a comprehensive and contemporary museum-culture center in this very lively area of the city.

Pera Museum, History, Architectural Structure, Artifacts

Architectural Structure, Interiors

The building, which was built by architect Achille Manoussos in Istanbul’s favorite district Tepebaşı in 1893, was completely overhauled by Architect M. Sinan Genim and underwent major renovations to transform the interior into a modern and fully equipped exhibition space.

Permanent collections are displayed on the first two floors; The upper three floors are reserved for traveling exhibitions, always staged with aplomb and meticulously illuminated. A large auditorium in the basement is used for a film, conference and concert program.

The Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection exhibition, which is located on a large part of the first floor of the museum, features weights and measurement units and scales used in these lands from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. and measuring devices produced in various materials and techniques. The Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, consisting of approximately 10,000 works and exhibited in sections with long-term exhibitions, is a collection that appeals to history and archeology lovers in particular.

The Kütahya Tile and Ceramics Collection, which is located on the other side of the same floor and constitutes an important part of Ottoman handicrafts and art mosaics from the middle of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, constitutes an important part of the Ottoman handicrafts and art mosaics. With its strikingly beautiful works, it is presented to visitors with long-term thematic exhibitions, aiming to shed a new light on a very colorful and multicultural life and a place of creation that is not well known in our cultural history.

Important Works

Pera Museum, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s “Orientalist Painting”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures” and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics” collections and the values represented by these collections, exhibitions, publications, oral activities, educational activities and scientific studies hosting.
The Turtle Trainer by the great Ottoman painter and archaeologist Osman Hamdi Bey is perhaps the most famous painting in the museum. It also gives visitors the opportunity to experience Osman Hamdi Bey’s fictional working environment and his much-loved painting, The Turtle Trainer, through virtual reality technology.

Where is Pera Museum, How to Go, Directions, Visiting Hours, Entrance Price

The cultural center, located in the heart of the city, is in the Şişhane campus of Istanbul.
Full address: Meşrutiyet Caddesi No:65 34430 Tepebaşı – Beyoğlu – Istanbul
By metro, on Yenikapı – Hacıosman (M2) line, get off at Şişhane stop. Take the Şişhane exit and proceed on Meşrutiyet Caddesi. Pera Museum is a 10-minute walk away.
By bus, get off at the Tepebaşı-Beyoğlu bus stop in front of the British Consulate General in Tarlabaşı Boulevard. Pera Museum is 5 minutes walking distance.
Entry Fees
Full: 25 TL
Pera Museum can be visited free of charge every Friday between 18:00 and 22:00.
The museum is closed on the first day of religious holidays and on 1 January every year.