Atatürk Museum , museum in istanbul , turkey

Atatürk Museum :

 House where Ataturk lived and worked before the War of Independence during his stay in Istanbul between 1918 and 1919, originally was built in 1908 and restored by the Municipality of Istanbul in 1943, opening to the public in 1981. Top floor of this building was reserved to His mother Zubeyde Hanim and His sister Makbule, meanwhile Ataturk used middle floor for himself and lower floor for His loyal officer.

About Atatürk Museum :

 

 Atatürk Museum (Turkish: Atatürk Müzesi) is a historic house museum dedicated to the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey. It is located in the district of Şişli, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey.
It is located in a three-storey house built in 1908. Atatürk rented the house after returning from the Syrian Front and lived there with his mother and sister. He lived there until May 1919 when he went to Samsun. The building was bought in 1928 by the Istanbul Municipality and Atatürk's belongings were stored there. The house was converted to museum and opened to visitors on June 15, 1942 as Atatürk Revolution Museum.

 Newly-acquired Ataturk Memorabilia in the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Istanbul

 

 Many may visit the Museum simply to relive the novel, others to visualize it in object, others to commemorate the author’s legacy, and others to satisfy a curiosity for the absurd. But like any museum, there are two types of visitors for whom this very site exists. The first are those who come to reaffirm, commemorate, and satisfy their faith in what is, and the second are those who come to deconstruct and unsettle the orderly. The prior see the museum as a compliment to what exists, reifying it and the latter see it as an corruption of what is. From the little that has been written so far about the museum, it appears even the Turkish press has embraced the prior. It is seen as one in a long string of museums worldwide dedicated to the celebration of writers such as the Dickens House and Museum, the Musee de Victor Hugo in Paris (built in 1903), and the Alexander Pope grotto-turned-museum. However, I have a nagging suspicion that while the majority of visitors to this museum will be those who admire and embrace, Pamuk’s intention is to deconstruct and gently satirize history—individual and collective—in modern Turkey.

Ataturk Museum,Osmanbey,Istanbul

 Nothing that special but if you fancy a short trip on the metro from Taksim, then this does it.
Ataturk lived here with his mother after returning from the Syrian front.
He held secret meetings here before going to Samsun to start the war of independence.
Contains pictures and personal belongings.

Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos Church) Museum , MUSEUM IN ISTANBUL , TURKEY

Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos Church) Museum,,,,

 Pammakaristos Church, also known as the Church of Theotokos Pammakaristos (Greek: Θεοτόκος ἡ Παμμακάριστος, "All-Blessed Mother of God"), in 1591 converted into a mosque and known as Fethiye Mosque (Turkish: Fethiye Camii, "mosque of the conquest") and today partly a museum, is one of the most famous Byzantine churches in Istanbul, Turkey. The parekklesion, besides being one of the most important examples of Constantinople's Palaiologan architecture, has the largest amount of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul after the Hagia Sophia and Chora Church.

Location of Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos Church) Museum

 

 The building is located in the Çarşamba neighbourhood within the district of Fatih inside the walled city of Istanbul. Theotokos Pammakaristos overlooks the Golden Horn.

 History of Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos Church) Museum 

 

 According to most scholars, the church was built between the eleventh and the twelfth centuries. Many historians and archaeologists believe that the original structure of the church can be attributed to Michael VII Ducas (1071–1078), others put its foundation in the Comnenian period. It has also been suggested by the Swiss scholar and Byzantinist Ernest Mamboury that the original building was erected in the 8th century.
A parekklesion (a side chapel) was added to the south side of the church in the early Palaiologan period, and dedicated to Christos ho Logos (Greek: Christ the Word).[3] The small shrine was erected by Martha Glabas in memory of her late husband, the protostrator Michael Doukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes, a general of Andronikos II Palaiologos, shortly after the year 1310. An elegant dedicatory inscription to Christ, written by the poet Manuel Philes, runs along the parekklesion, both outside and inside it.
The main church was also renovated at the same time, as the study of the Templon has shown. Following the fall of Constantinople, the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate was first moved to the Church of the Holy Apostles, and in 1456 to the Pammakaristos Church, which remained as the seat of the Patriarchate until 1587.
Five years later, the Ottoman Sultan Murad III converted the church into a mosque and renamed it in honor of his Fetih (Conquest) of Georgia and Azerbaijan, hence the name Fethiye Camii. To accommodate the requirements of prayer, most of the interior walls were removed in order to create a larger inner space.
The complex, which was neglected, has been restored in 1949 by the Byzantine Institute of America and Dumbarton Oaks, which brought it back to its pristine splendor. While the main building remains a mosque, the parekklesion has since then been a museum.

 Architecture and decoration in Fethiye Mosque (Pammakaristos Church) Museum 

 

 The Comnenian building was a church with a main aisle and two deambulatoria,[6] and had three apses, and a narthex to the west. The masonry was typical of the Comnenian period, and adopted the technique of the recessed brick. In this technique, alternate coarses of brick are mounted behind the line of the wall, and are plunged in a mortar's bed, which can still be seen in the cistern underneath and in the church.[1] The transformation of the church into a mosque changed the original building greatly. The arcades connecting the main aisle with the deambulatoria were removed and were replaced with broad archways to open up the nave. The three apses were removed too. In their place toward the east a great domed room was built, obliquely with respect to the orientation of the building.
On the other side, the parekklesion represents the most beautiful building of the late Byzantine period in Constantinople. It has the typical cross-in-square plan with five domes, but the proportion between vertical and horizontal dimensions is much bigger than usual (although not so big as in the contemporary Byzantine churches built in the Balkans).
Although the inner colored marble revetment largely disappeared, the shrine still contains the restored remains of a number of mosaic panels, which, while not as varied and well-preserved as those of the Chora Church, serve as another resource for understanding late Byzantine art.
A representation of the Pantocrator, surrounded by the prophets of the Old Testament (Moses, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, Micah, Joel, Zechariah, Obadiah, Habakkuk, Jonah, Malachi, Ezekiel, and Isaiah) is under the main dome. On the apse, Christ Hyperagathos is shown with Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist. The Baptism of Christ survives intact to the right side of the dome.

sorce : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pammakaristos_Church