Since its establishment, Pera Museum has presented a variety of Osman Hamdi Bey paintings from Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Orientalist Painting Collection, shedding light on the artist’s passionate relationship with the art of painting.
Having brought Osman Hamdi Bey’s works to hundreds of thousands of art enthusiasts, Pera Museum presents its visitors the opportunity to experience his working environment and much-admired painting The Tortoise Trainer, through virtual reality.
A Journey into the World of Osman Hamdi Bey enables the audience to pay a visit to Osman Hamdi Bey’s working space, to analyze in detail the books which inspired his works, his brushes and personal items, and to step into his painting The Tortoise Trainer, where they can look the artist in the eye.
Enriched with numerous precious works from Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's Orientalist Painting, Anatolian Weights and Measures, Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics and Photography collections, the virtual experience takes place in an imaginary space designed according to the civilian architecture of the period and research on the artist's waterside mansion in Kuruçeşme. Created by Muse VR, the virtual reality experience features objects designed in the light of various visual documents and testimonies available today. Bringing together research-based fiction with historical facts, the virtual space allows the visitors to get to know Osman Hamdi Bey as a painter, archaeologist and museologist.
Jean-Léon Gérôme is among the most renowned artists of the second half of the 19th century. One of the most fervent advocates of academic painting, Gérôme declared a personal war against modern movements such as Impressionism.
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”.
Between 1963 and 1966 Andy Warhol worked at making film portraits of all sorts of characters linked to New York art circles. Famous people and anonymous people were filmed by Andy Warhol’s 16 mm camera, for almost four minutes, without any instructions other than ‘to get in front of the camera’.
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: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
