3D Designs with Foil

School Groups
High School

Face-to-Face

Students who visit the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Art of Weight and Measure exhibition with a guide examine weights and measuring tools created in different ages and travelled more than people as objects of trade. In the workshop, they create their three-dimensional designs from foil, inspired by weights made of stone, lead, and bronze in the shape of a Heracles bust, a sleeping duck, or weights in geometric shapes inspired by city-state symbols.

Weekday Face-to-face Learning Program
Thursday
10:30-12:00
13:30-15:00

Related Exhibition: The Art of Weights and Measures 

Guided tour and workshop participation fee per person for private schools: 200 TL
Guided tours and workshops are free of charge for public schools.

Reservation is required for groups, which should include no less than 10 and no more than 30 participants.

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Wondrous Cures in Constantinople

Wondrous Cures in Constantinople

The shrines that created the glory of Constantinople through their lavish beauty were also repositories of precious relics and thus sources of healing. 

Demons, Symbols, and the Cosmos

Demons, Symbols, and the Cosmos

Beliefs surrounding illness and healing in Byzantium stem from the myths, astrology, and magic practiced around the Mediterranean by Jews, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Greeks.

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.