Pera Museum

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Pera Museum (Turkish: Pera Müzesi) is a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, founded in 2005 by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation.

The museum is housed in a renovated historical building, which was originally constructed in 1893 by the architect Achille Manoussos in the Tepebaşı neighborhood in 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 İnan Kıraç 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 and Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics.

Pera Museum has exhibitions on five floors. The museum's permanent collections are exhibited on the first two floors and the top three floors are dedicated to changing exhibitions. The ground floor has an artshop and a café, and the basement houses an auditorium and a lobby.

Museum Hours:

• Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 - 19.00
• Sunday: 12.00 - 18.00
• Closed on Mondays.

Admission: Regular: 7 YTL, Groups: 5 YTL (10 or more), Discounted: 3 YTL (students over the age of 12, teacher and visitors aged 60 and over)

• Free admission for under 12, disabled visitors and one accompanying person.

Audio Guide: 2 YTL (1 YTL for groups)

Address:
Meşrutiyet Caddesi No.141
34443 Tepebaşı - Beyoğlu - İstanbul, Turkey

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