MARMARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ PENDİK EĞİTİM VE ARAŞTIRMA HASTANESİ

Istanbul Archaeological Museums are an example of the first museum studies in our country. Traces of historical artifact collection efforts in the Ottoman Empire date back to the period of Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror. However, the institutional emergence of museology in a systematic way occurred with the establishment of the Istanbul Archeology Museum in 1869 under the name 'Müze-i Hümayun'.

The Imperial Museum, consisting of archaeological artifacts collected in the Hagia Irene Church until that date, forms the basis of today's Istanbul Archaeological Museums. When Hagia Irene Church was insufficient, a new venue was sought. Due to lack of funds, instead of building a new building, the Tiled Pavilion was converted into a museum.

Turkish museology made significant progress with the appointment of Osman Hamdi Bey, son of Grand Vizier Edhem Pasha, as museum director in 1881. A new museum building was needed for the many artifacts obtained as a result of the excavations carried out at Mount Nemrud, Myrina, Kyme and Ailoia Necropolises and the Lagina Hekate Temple.

Istanbul Archeology Museums building is one of the rare buildings in the world built as a museum building. The Archaeological Museum, which was opened to visitors in 1891 and is one of the most beautiful and magnificent examples of Neo-Classical architecture in Istanbul, has a very remarkable architecture with the magnificence of its façade. It looks like a temple with its two entrances, four columns each, and pediments, reached by wide stairs on the long façade. The Ottoman text in Kufic style on the pediment reads 'Asar-ı Atika Museum' (Museum of Ancient Works). The Tuğra on this article is the Ottoman Sultan II, who had the classical building built. It belongs to Abdulhamid.