Other Museums in Istanbul
 The Aviation Museum in Yeşilköy traces the development of
air flight in Turkey. (Open every day except Monday.)
The great field tents used by the Ottoman
armies on campaigns are displayed in the Military Museum.
Other exhibits include Ottoman weapons and the accoutrements of war. The
Mehter Takımı (Ottoman military band) perform Ottoman martial
music between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. (Open every day except Monday and
Tuesday.)
The house in which Atatürk lived in Şişli
now serves as the Atatürk Museum and displays his personal
effects. (Open every day except Saturday and Sunday.)
In the Beşiktaş district the Naval
Museum displays the great imperial caiques in which the sultans
were rowed across the Bosphorus, as well as many other interesting
exhibits of Ottoman naval history (Open every day except Monday and
Thursday.)
Also in Beşiktaş, the Museum of Fine
Arts displays Turkish paintings and sculptures from the end of the
l9th century to the present day. (Open every day except Monday and
Tuesday.)
Located within the gardens of Yıldız
Palace, the City Museum preserves and documents the history
of Istanbul since the Ottoman conquest. (Open every day except Thursday.)
Also within the gardens are the Yıldız
Palace, Theatre and the Historic Stage
Costumes Museum, with its richly decorated scenery and stage, and
its exquisite costumes.
Rahmi Koç Industry Museum,
in the suburb of Hasköy on the coast of the Golden Horn, an
Ottoman-period iron- and steel-works building formerly called Lengerhane,
it houses industrial development exhibits. (Open every day except Monday).
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