Islamic Science and Technology History Museum
Islamic Science Historian The museum, opened by Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin in May 2008, is located in the Has Barns Building adjacent to the palace city wall in Gülhane Park. The museum, which has an exhibition area of 3,500 square meters, is considered the second exemplary museum in the world after Frankfurt, with a total of 570 tools, models and models.
The works compiled through years of intensive scientific and historical studies on Arab-Islamic manuscripts have formed the basis of the works that enable a unique journey for its visitors today. The museum offers the opportunity to comprehensively follow the evolution of the history of science in different disciplines. Works belonging to the fields of astronomy, geography, navigation, time measurement, geometry, optics, medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, physics, technology, architecture and warfare techniques are exhibited in a systematic order.
The Museum of the History of Islamic Science and Technology sheds light on the present and the future by revealing the aesthetic and instructive nature of scientific works as well as the process of the past Islamic world in the history of science by revealing artifacts and documents.
Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul