The Istanbul Archaeological Museum consists of three museums.
1. Archaeological Museum (Main Building)
2. Museum of the Ancient Orient
3. Museum of Islamic Art (in the tiled kiosk).
It is home to more than one million objects that represent almost all epochs and civilizations in world history.
History
The website of the museums were among the Topkapi Palace outer gardens. The museum was founded by decree as the Imperial Museum (İmparatorluk Müzesi) in 1891. It was the first museum of Turkish art [edit] function. The first curator and founder of the museum was Osman Hamdi Bey. As an imperial decree for the protection of cultural goods in the Ottoman Empire was enforced, many governors of the provinces would be found in artifacts to send the capital. In this way, the museum is able to amass a large collection was. After his 100th Birthday in 1991 the Museum received the European Council Museum Award, made especially for the renovations to the lower floor rooms in the main building and the new displays in the other buildings.
The construction of the main building was started by Osman Hamdi Bey in 1881 and reached its present neo-Greek form in 1908. The architect was Alexander Vallaury. The facade of the building was inspired by the Alexander Sarcophagus and Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women, both housed inside the museum. It is one of the prominent structures in the neo-classical style built in Istanbul.
The Museum of the Orient was given by Osman Hamdi Bey in 1883 as the School of Fine Arts in order. Then it was like a museum, which opened reorganized 1935th It was closed to visitors in 1963 and reopened in 1974 after the restoration of the interior.
The tiled kiosk was built by Sultan Mehmed II in 1472, where in order. It is one of the oldest buildings in Istanbul, Ottoman civil architecture and became a part of the Topkapi Palace outer gardens. It was used as the Imperial Museum 1875-1891, before the collection moved into the newly constructed main building. It was opened to the public in 1953 as the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, and was later incorporated in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
Collection
The ornate sarcophagus of Alexander, formerly of Alexander the Great probably produced one of the most famous pieces of ancient art in the museum. [2] The Treaty of Kadesh (1258 BC) between Ramses II of Egypt and the Hittite Empire III Hattusili signed, is a favorite of visitors. It is the oldest known peace treaty in the world, and a huge poster of these tablets with the contract is on the wall of the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
The museum has a large collection of Turkish, Hellenistic and Roman artifacts. The most prominent artifacts are on display in the museum:
* Sarcophagus of the weeping women, also found in Sidon
* Tabnit sarcophagi and the satrap
* The Lycian grave, a monumental tomb
* Glazed tile images from the Ishtar Gate of Babylon
* Statues from ancient antiquity to the end of the Roman era, from Aphrodisias, Ephesus and
Miletus
* Statue of a ephebos
* Parts of the statues from the temple of Zeus found at Bergama
Treaty of Kadesh
* Statue of a lion, the only piece from the hands of British archaeologists in the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus saved
* Snake head built from the Serpentine Column in the Hippodrome of Constantinople
* Mother Goddess Cybele and votive stelae
* Busts of Alexander the Great and Zeus
* Fragments from the Temple of Athena in Assos
* The issue of Troy
* 800 000 Ottoman coins, seals, decorations and medals
* One of the three known tablets of the Treaty of Kadesh.
* The Obelisk of the Assyrian king Adad-nirari III
* Tablet archive of some 75,000 documents with cuneiform inscriptions
* Artifacts from the early civilizations of Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Arabia and Egypt
* Siloam inscription, which made headlines in July 2007 when Israel asked
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