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Fatih, Turkey

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Museum of Great Palace Mosaics Reviews | Rating 4.4 out of 5 stars (8 reviews)

Museum of Great Palace Mosaics is located in Fatih, Turkey on Sultanahmet Mahallesi Kabasakal Cad. Arasta Çarşısı Sok. No. 53. Museum of Great Palace Mosaics is rated 4.4 out of 5 in the category museum in Turkey.

Address

Sultanahmet Mahallesi Kabasakal Cad. Arasta Çarşısı Sok. No. 53

Phone

+902125181205

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Iurii Rubish

Ancient mosaics, nice experience of visiting the place. Easy to find and access, friendly staff :)

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Mirza Salman Niaz

It was good. But it's ticket is more high 30 liras which is not good. Nobody comes here much. We found it very less worth. Thigh it hS a rich history and archiologists will find it very well.

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Mike X

Worth it if you're in the area and have a museum pass. These are excellent mosaics that have three dimensional shading which is technically very difficult. It's a very short visit though and if I didn't have the museum card, I don't think I would have paid the separate entrance fee.

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Shuko Ume

Great arts, respect to artists in the past. It can be more relaxed space with cafe space or mozaik class attached..if possible in future i hope.

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Yiğit Selamoğlu

It is a marvellous and unfortunately generally unknown museum in the historical peninsula of Istanbul. Moreover, it mainly consists of Eastern Roman mosaics from the Great Byzantine Palace in the Hippodrome. I have been able to visit the worldly famous Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, and its artistic value was not more than the one in Sultanahmet.

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JUZER KAPADIA

Located near Arasta Bazaar, among a warren of small shops, this museum was created simply by roofing over a part of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors, which was discovered in the 1930s. In its heyday the palace boasted hundreds of rooms, many of them glittering with gold mosaics.The surviving mosaic has a surface area of 1,872 sqm (1,969 sq ft), making it one of the largest preserved mosaics in Europe. It is thought to have been created by an imperial workshop that employed the best craftsmen from across the Empire under the guidance of a master artist. In terms of imagery, the mosaic is particularly diverse, with many different landscapes depicted, including domestic and pastoral episodes, such as herdsmen with their grazing animals, as well as hunting and fighting scenes. The mosaic is thought to have adorned the colonnade leading from the royal apartments to the imperial enclosure beside the Hippodrome, and dates from the late 5th century AD

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Kadir Genç

HOME OF EVERYDAY LIFE, NATURE AND MYTHOLOGY MOSAICS The mosaics unearthed in excavations in the northeastern section of the cloister in Eastern Roman Grand Palace in 1935, are magnificent both in terms of artistic and in terms of the richness of depictions of the scenes. The works exhibited in the Great Palace Mosaics Museum, dated between 450-550 AD do not have religious content. The depictions taken from daily life, nature and mythology probably owe their vitality to the many experts under the leadership of the leading masters of the era. The museum is located inside the Arasta Market in the Blue Mosque Complex, and it was formed to cover the mosaic floor treatment which remained partially preserved in the northeastern part of the colonnaded courtyard of the Great Palace belonging to the Eastern Roman Period. Only 180 square meters of the mosaic area was uncovered.

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Gautam R

Also known as Great Palace Mosaic Museum this place has mosaic ruins used to decorate the pavement of court long back in time. It was uncovered by British archaeologists from a University in Scotland. The mosaics are beautiful and every art piece is different to to other. I am always fascinated by mosaic art as it looks very modern form of art but these are so very old. I loved that you can stand in a balcony and look down at the mosaic art which is beautiful as well as intriguing. Also best thing is if you are Sultanahmet area everything and main attractions are close by. If you but museum pass this place is included in that and you must visit

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