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Archaeology Museum , Istanbul - Reviews of Archaeology Museum - IgoUgo
is divided into three separately-housed collections: The Museum of the Ancient Orient, located in the building closest to the entrance; another building which housed the original Ottoman Imperial Museum and now contains a collection of Turkish tiles and ceramics; and the Archaeological Museum proper...
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Archaeological Museum and Oriental Museum, Istanbul - Reviews of Archaeological Museum and Oriental Museum - IgoUgo
Twenty galleries filled with artifacts gathered from all over Turkey and the near east celebrate 5,000 years of history with exhibits from Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the many civilizations of Anatolia and ancient Egypt. The main building houses the finds of nineteenth-century archaeologist Os...
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Archaeological Museum - Izmir, Turkey
Upstairs is a chronological exhibit of pottery, ceramics, and glass, as well as funerary objects and the reconstruction of a 3rd-millennium-B.C. tomb. Larger stone and marble statues take up the lower floor, including statues of Poseidon, Demeter, and Artemis taken from the altar of Zeus in the Agor...
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Archaeological Museum of Istanbul (museum, Istanbul, Turkey) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Hamdi Bey founded the Archaeological Museum of Istanbul and became its director in 1881. His enlightened taste and energy did much to establish the reputation of the museum and its impressive collection of Greco-Roman antiquities. Included among the treasures that he secured for the museum are the f...
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Archeology Museum- Istanbul, Turkey - VirtualTourist.com
The Istanbul Archaeological Museum is actually made up of 3 separately housed collections - The Museum of Ancient Orient, The Museum of Archaeology, and The Çinili Kösk (Tiled Kiosk). The museum, as it is structured now, opened in 1891, to which famed Turkish archaeologist, painter, & intellectual O...
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