İstanbul Airport Museum:
İstanbul Airport Museum opened its doors on the 17th of July 2020 with an exhibition on important Turkish artefacts.‘Treasures of Türkiye: Faces of the Throne’ is displaying 316 different items from 29 museums in Türkiye, as well as artefacts including the ‘Kadesh Treaty’, the first peace treaty in the history of humanity. The objective of the exhibition is to display twelve thousand years of Anatolian history through the concept of ‘Rule and Ruler’.
Being the first of its kind in Türkiye and one of the few worldwide, the museum is awaiting its visitors on the international departures floor with an area covering 1000m². İstanbul airport museum plans to welcome visitors with a new, temporary exhibition every year. The museum’s first exhibition serves as a miniature ‘Anatolian Civilisations Museum’ with artefacts from the prehistoric, Hittite, Urartu, Phyrgian, Lydian, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and modern Turkish periods.
İstanbul Airport Museum is open between 8:30am and 23:00pm daily. Admission costs 13€, guests under the age of 8 admission is free and museum passes both Türkiye and İstanbul are not valid for this particular museum.
See Also
- https://sanalmuze.gov.tr/ | Virtual Museum
- https://www.trtworld.com | Visit the largest airport museum in the world in İstanbul
- http://istanbul.gov.tr | The World's Largest Country Introduction Museum: "İstanbul Airport Museum"
