Pera Museum

About Pera Museum

Art museum in İstanbul, Turkey

The Pera Museum is a private art museum in the Tepebaşı quarter of Beyoğlu, the district once known as Pera, at Meşrutiyet Avenue 65 next to İstiklal Avenue and a short walk from Taksim Square. It opened in 2005 in the restored late-19th-century Bristol Hotel building and is run by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. Its best-known holding is a collection of 19th-century Orientalist paintings, European artists' views of Ottoman life and cities, including works by Osman Hamdi Bey, among them The Tortoise Trainer, perhaps the most famous painting in Turkish art. Two further permanent collections show colourful Kütahya tiles and ceramics, and an unusual set of Anatolian weights and measures used since antiquity. The upper floors host changing exhibitions by Turkish and international artists, and the building also has a small cinema with classic and independent film programmes, a library, shop and café. Its central position makes it an easy stop on a walk along İstiklal Avenue.

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Istanbul, Türkiye