Istanbul Archaeological Museums

Also known as İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri

Year

1891

Type

building

Ottoman administrator and painter Osman Hamdi Bey founded the Imperial Museum in 1881 and commissioned Vallaury to design a new purpose-built museum building (the first in the empire) modeled on the Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women discove …

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