A Journey Through Pera Museum’s Collection Exhibitions

Guided Tour

May 16, 2025 / 18:00

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Pera Museum is organizing a free guided exhibition tour of its collection exhibitions in collaboration with the İBB Kültür AŞ. Collection exhibitions, curated from Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation collections, are presented to visitors with the accompaniment of a guide.

Intersecting Worlds: Ambassadors and Painters sheds light on Ottoman-European relations between the 17th and 19th centuries. The exhibition titled Osman Hamdi Bey highlights the artistic identity of Osman Hamdi Bey, who made significant contributions to Ottoman archaeology, cultural heritage, and museology. Meanwhile, The Art of Weights and Measures explores 4000 years of commercial history in Anatolia through weight and measuring instruments.

The 1-hour guided tour is free of charge, and the language is Turkish. The quota is limited. To join the tour, you can make a reservation via resepsiyon@peramuzesi.org.tr e-mail address.

Temporary Exhibition

Osman Hamdi Bey

An Ottoman intellectual raised by the Tanzimat Era… An exceptional personality, who made substantial, diversified and lifelong contributions to various fields of culture and arts such as painting, archaeology, museology, and art education...

Osman Hamdi Bey

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

A Salon exhibition held in the Grand Palais in Paris on May 1, 1906 showcased an Ottoman painting. This was Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous “Tortoise Trainer”. 

Symbols

Symbols

Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.

The Painter of Venice

The Painter of Venice

Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century.