Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, a History
October 26, 2023 - August 18, 2024
The exhibition aims to shed new light on the history of Istanbul’s representations through panoramic paintings and photographs. It critically approaches the history of the "panorama" and contextualizes its many iterations. While examining the layered relationships in the production and consumption of panoramic images, the exhibition also explores the circulation of these images among different audiences, their receptions, and the connections between various media that have gained popularity over centuries.
Exercises in Spaces and Texts
May 23 - August 18, 2024
Pera Museum presents the exhibition PƎRⱯ Reverse in collaboration with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s "Practices and Politics of Representation" class, led by Prof. Mona Mahall with Yelta Köm, and Hochschule für Künste Bremen’s "Temporary Spaces" class of Prof. Aslı Serbest. Departing from two paintings in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection, they explore global capitalist relations and localized cultural practices in art, as well as the role of architecture in both establishing and revealing the ways in which institutions mediate and operate in relation to their urban environments in a place and time.
Ambassadors and Painters
Since its earlier periods, The Ottoman Empire has established intense relations with European states. Urged by curiosity and a certain degree of fear at times, the West's efforts, on the other hand, to be acquainted with and understand this government of immense military power and source of political authority, emerged as a political exigency.
The life and art of Osman Hamdi Bey through his works in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Collection
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...
Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection
As the measurement of discovery became the substance of myths, weighing and measuring, beyond being mere physical actions, became an important means of self-expression to those captivated by the universe and what lay beyond the boundaries of knowledge.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 100 TL
Discounted: 50 TL
Groups: 80 TL (minimum 10 people)