Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art

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Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
Ottoman censer, 1628

The Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art ( Türk ve İslâm Eserleri Müzesi, İbrahim Paşa Sarayı ) is located in the historical center of Istanbul at the Hippodrome , directly opposite the Blue Mosque .

history

The museum is now located in the Ibrahim Pasha Palace , which Sultan Suleyman I , known as the Magnificent, gave to his vizier İbrahim Pasha in the early 16th century . After his death in 1536, the building served as the winter quarters of the Janissary School , diplomatic residence, financial center, sewing room and prison before it was abandoned and gradually fell into disrepair.

In 1970 it was restored and since 1983 it has housed the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, founded in 1914, which was previously housed in the poor kitchen ( imaret ) of the Suleymaniye Mosque and was the first museum with Islamic art in the Ottoman Empire. The museum received a Council of Europe Prize in 1984 and a UNESCO Prize in 1985 . It was restored from 2012 and reopened in 2014.

collection

Jug and kettle, Ottoman, 1870
Bathhouse shoes, Ottoman, ca.19th century

The museum contains a rich collection of almost all epochs of Islamic art and almost all regions from the 7th century to the 20th century.

The museum houses the world's most extensive and, due to its quality, one of the most important collections of carpets with approx. 1700 copies, as well as numerous kilims . In addition to rare Seljuk carpets, the collection includes specimens known in the west as Holbein carpets , as well as important Uşak and Saray carpets .

Furthermore, the museum shows illuminated manuscripts , calligraphy , Koran manuscripts , Persian miniature paintings , including the prophetic biography " Siyer-i Nebi " by Sayyid Süleyman Kasım Pascha or the Zubdat at-Tawarich by Sayyid Loqman Aşuri, as-Sayyid Lutfi, Molla Kasım and Ustad Osman , Tughras , Ottoman Ebru art , chancellery writings , etc., which come from all areas of Islamic cultures between the Umayyads and the Ottomans.

The woodcarving Imagery ranges from the 9th century through extremely rare Seljuk exhibits of the 10th century to the Ottoman period, including Koran stand , Minbar , doors, pillars and furniture.

The stone work predominantly includes calligraphies from the Umayyads, Abbasids, Mamluks, Seljuks and Ottomans. But there are also some notable pictorial works and reliefs , especially among the Seljuk ones, that show figurative elements, e.g. B. Hunting scenes and riders or fabulous creatures such as sphinxes , griffins , dragons, etc.

In the ceramics department, besides İznik ceramics , faience , mosaic and plaster art, ceramics from Samarra (Iraq), Kashan (Iran), Raqqa and Aleppo (Syria), the Seljuks and Ottomans through to Kütahyaware and Çanakkaleware are shown. This collection is rounded off by a glass collection, starting with works from the 9th century, through glass hanging baskets from the Mamluks to Ottoman rose water bottles.

The metalwork in the museum gives an overview of the development over 800 years, from Almohadic astrolabes , to Seljuk door knockers in the shape of a dragon, Anatolian candlesticks, Mamluk water basins to Ottoman turban jewelry, incense containers, jugs, standards and table settings.

In the ethnological department living rooms and facilities of different Turkish ethnic groups from different epochs are shown. Furthermore, exhibition rooms offer space for national and international special exhibitions.

Web links

Commons : Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Z. Kenan Bilici: Bronze door-knockers of Cizre Great Mosque - A New Example. in: Compareti, Raffetta, Scarcia (Ed.): Transoxiana Webfestschrift Series I. - Ēran ud Anērān. Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Electronic Version (October 2003)

Coordinates: 41 ° 0 '22.68 "  N , 28 ° 58' 28.42"  E