ISTANBUL ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM
ISTANBUL ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM Istanbul Archaeological Museums are examples of the first museology studies in our country. The traces of the works of collecting historical artifacts in the Ottoman Empire date back to the period of Fatih Sultan Mehmet. However, the institutional emergence of museology in a systematic way was with the establishment of the Istanbul Archeology Museum in 1869 under the name of 'Museum-i Hümayun'. The Museum-i Hümayun, which consists of archaeological artifacts collected in the Hagia Irene Church until that time, forms the basis of today's Istanbul Archaeological Museums. When the Hagia Irene Church was insufficient, a search was made for a new place. Instead of constructing a new building due to financial inadequacy, the Tiled Kiosk is converted into a museum. With the appointment of Osman Hamdi Bey, the son of Grand Vizier Edhem Pasha, as the museum director in 1881, Turkish museology made significant progress. A new museum building wa