The Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum is a private fine arts museum in Istanbul, Turkey, dedicated to calligraphic art, religious and state documents, as well as paintings of the Ottoman era. The museum was founded by Sakıp Sabancı, and was opened in June 2002. Aside from permanent exhibitions, the museum also hosts national and foreign temporary exhibitions and, hosts cultural events on the weekends.
Sakip Sabanci Museum
"Atlı Köşk"
Inside the entrance gate of the mansion - the statue of the horse (left), and a queue waiting to visit the exhibition "Salvador Dalí: A Surrealist in Istanbul"
Collection of Ottoman Calligraphy
Fausto Zonaro was an Italian painter, best known for his realist style paintings of life and history of the Ottoman Empire.
Self-portrait (1908)
Fausto Zonaro: Il reggimento imperiale di Ertugrul sul ponte di Galata (The Imperial Regiment of Ertugrul on the Galata Bridge)
On the Göksu Deresi (showing Zonaro's wife Elisabetta)
Fausto Zonaro: Mehmed II and the Ottoman Army approaching Constantinople, transporting a giant cannon.