Topkapı Palace
The sultans’ palace on Sarayburnu: courtyards, the Imperial Council, the treasury and the terraces over the water. Dated entry, sold online on its own site.
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Museums in Ankara
9 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Ankara, with hours and what to see at each.
Ankara
July 15 Democracy Museum
A large museum in Ankara devoted to the events of 15 July 2016, told through eight themed halls, digital displays and an outdoor valley leading to a memorial.
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Ankara
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Ankara's celebrated museum in two restored Ottoman buildings, tracing Anatolia from the Paleolithic to the Phrygians, with virtual tours and Göbeklitepe replicas.
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Ankara
Ankara Ethnography Museum
A landmark of the early Republic, this Ankara museum was built as a national project and once served as Atatürk's temporary resting place.
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Ankara
Republic Museum
The building where the second Turkish parliament sat from 1924, now a child-friendly museum of early Republican politics, with Atatürk's own belongings.
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Ankara
Gordion Museum
A museum at Yassıhöyük near ancient Gordion, capital of the Phrygian kings, with a chronological display from the Bronze Age to the Roman period.
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Ankara
Kahramankazan 15 July Martyrs and Democracy Museum
A modern museum in Ankara's Kahramankazan district remembering those who died on 15 July 2016, with personal belongings, poems and objects from the night of the coup attempt.
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Ankara
Independence War Museum
The unfinished party clubhouse that became Turkey's first parliament in 1920, telling the story of the National Struggle from Ankara.
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Ankara
Painting and Sculpture Museum
Ankara's art museum for Turkish painting and sculpture, in a building from 1927, with a specialist art library and the archives of Turkish artists.
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Ankara
Roman Baths of Ankara
The remains of a large bathing complex built under Emperor Caracalla in central Ankara, arranged as an open-air museum with inscribed stones and a columned road.
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Istanbul tickets online
Four Istanbul landmarks, each sold on its own site by the agency behind this guide — dated entry and free cancellation up to 24 hours.
Basilica Cistern
Justinian’s great underground reservoir: 336 columns in still water and the two Medusa heads. Fast-track entry with a digital audio guide.
Hagia Sophia
Justinian’s cathedral, the sultans’ mosque and a working mosque again today. The ticket admits you to the upper visitor gallery.
Dolmabahçe Palace
A nineteenth-century palace on the water’s edge: the Selamlık, the Ceremonial Hall under its chandelier, the crystal staircase and the Harem.