Sadberk Hanım Museum
29 Kasım 2024

Sadberk Hanım Museum

Vehbi Koç Foundation Sadberk Hanım Museum is located in two separate buildings. The first of these is a building that is considered to have been built in the late 19th century, consists of three full attic floors, and is styled after European folk traditional architecture. It was built in wooden/baghdadi style on a masonry ground and is known as the "Azaryan Mansion".

The waterside mansion was purchased by the Koç family in 1950 and was used as a summer house until 1978, when it was decided to turn it into a museum. Between 1978 and 1980, with the implementation of a restoration project prepared by Sedat Hakkı Eldem, the building was converted into a museum and the Sadberk Koç Collection was opened to visitors on October 14, 1980, to be exhibited.

Sadberk Hanım Müzesi

Azaryan Mansion, which is 4280 square meters including its garden, sits on an area of 400 square meters. On the ground floor, there is a souvenir shop and a small tea room. The ceiling of the main entrance, which is not used today, is decorated with plasterboard cassettes inspired by ancient Roman architecture. The floors are accessed via wooden stairs and the walls are painted with pencil imitation marble. The middle main halls of the first and second floors above the ground floor and the rooms opening to them are used as exhibition spaces. On the attic floor, there are work storages, study rooms and a library.

Sadberk Hanım Müzesi

(X) shaped wooden decorations on the exterior of the building, between the windows, distinguish the building from other mansions. In addition, the bumps on the surface of the building have caused it to be known as "Screwed Mansion" among the public.

Sadberk Hanım Müzesi

In order to exhibit the Kocabaş works, which the Vehbi Koç Foundation purchased in 1983 and added to the Sadberk Hanım Museum collections, another half-demolished waterside mansion, located right next to the current building and thought to have been built in the early 20th century, was rebuilt with its original façade. . The construction of the museum, whose restoration project was prepared by İbrahim Yalçın, took two years. Pre-Islamic archaeological artifacts are exhibited in this museum, which was opened on October 24, 1988 under the name "Sevgi Gönül Building". It was awarded the 1988 "Europa Nostra" award for its implementation of a contemporary museum.

Sadberk Hanım Müzesi

Built of reinforced concrete, the front façade is covered with wood. The side is plastered with marble imitating wood. This precaution has been taken against fire danger. There is a multi-purpose hall and a conservation laboratory on the ground floor of the building, which has three floors at the front and four floors at the back, including the ground floor.

Sadberk Hanım Müzesi

Archaeological artifacts are exhibited in chronological order on the main and mezzanine floors. The total exhibition area is 625 square meters. The entrance hall is covered with Afyon white, the stairs and the floor of the exhibition halls are covered with black Adapazarı marble. The exhibition halls were closed to daylight and the showcases gained the identity of a modern museum with contemporary lighting.

 



Source Türkiye Culture Portal History of Istanbul