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 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 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, 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.

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation commissioned architect Frank Gehry to design a new museum building on the location of the present-day TRT Tepebaşı headquarters; which is situated at the public square right in front of the Pera Museum and the nearby Hotel Pera Palace.^[1] The museum will be named the Suna Kıraç Cultural Center (Suna Kıraç Kültür Merkezi).^[2] Construction works will begin following the acquisition of building permission rights from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the High Council of Monuments, and the completion of the transfer of TRT personnel and equipment to the other TRT buildings in Istanbul's Ortaköy and Harbiye neighbourhoods.

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

Contents 1 Paintings exhibited at the museum 2 References and notes 3 Literature 4 External links

[edit] Paintings exhibited at the museum

Below are a few paintings from the Ottoman period which are exhibited at Pera Museum

[edit] References and notes

[edit] Literature

• Pera Museum (ed.). Portraits from the Empire. Pera Museum Publications, 2005. 155 p. ISBN 975 9123 -02 - 9
• Pera Museum (ed.). Young Expansion. Pera Museum Publications, 2005. 163 p. ISBN 975 9123 -00-2

[edit] External links

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