Pera Museum was founded in 2005 by Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. Housed in a 19th century building, the former Bristol Hotel and was renovated as this superb museum.

• First two floors house permanent collections including Anatolian Weights and Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics. 

• The museum also has a very rich Orientalist art collection including Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous ‘Turtoise Trainer’.

• Another permanent exhibition is ‘Portraits from the Empire’ which consists of portraits of sultans, princes and other members of the Ottoman imperial family.

•  Rest of the floors are multipurpose and are used for interesting exhibitions.

One of the latest ones this winter was the exhibition where old photographs of Istanbul was exhibited.