Istanbul Archaeological Museum which is a complex of three museums ( the Museum of Oriental Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum and the Tiled Pavillion ) , has one of the world's richest collection of classical artifacts and pre-classical treasures.
There are sixty-thousand archaeological treasures, seven-hundred-sixty thousand coins and medallions, and seventy-five thousand clay tablets in these three museums. ''Antique Age Sculpture'' examples are exhibited in the halls to the right of the entrance.
Unique examples of sculpture from the Archaic age until the end of Roman era are exhibited in the halls of ''Antique Crave Stones and Relief '','' Treasures from Persian Reign in Anatolia '','' Hellenistic Sculpture'',''Hellenistic and Hellenistic influenced Roman sculpture '', '' Roman Empire Sculpture '' and "Roman Art of Portrait Making ''.
Aphrodisias Relics, treasures from Ephesus, Miletus and Aphrodisias, artifacts found in Troy, treasures discovered in Cyprus, Palestine and Syria are only some of the vast treasures on display at the museum.
Archaeological Museum |
Osman Hamdi Bey Yokusu, Sultanahmet-Istanbul-TURKEY |
Tel: 00-90-212-5207740 Open daily except Mondays, 09:30-17:00 |
