Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum

The museum occupies the former Dar-ül Hadis madrasa in the courtyard of the Selimiye Mosque, and in fact Edirne's museum story began here in 1924, when the first archaeological museum opened in the madrasa. After the archaeology and ethnography museum opened in 1971, the madrasa was renamed the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum. Its exhibits are spread over fourteen rooms.

Highlights include the Wrestlers Room, with pictures of Kırkpınar champions and patrons and mannequins of a wrestler and a Kırkpınar agha, and the Dervish Lodge Room, one of the most important, with calligraphy, two doors from the Bayezid II Mosque in kündekari technique and a manuscript Quran given by Selim II to the Selimiye. Other rooms show hand-knitted wool socks, silk embroideries, Ottoman flintlock rifles, armour, helmets and janissary costume, and Balkan War relics such as the blood-stained banner.

Ceramics from Çanakkale and Ottoman wall tiles, tiles from the Edirne Palace excavations of 1973, a guest room with mirrors and silk-cocoon pictures, palace kitchen utensils, measuring instruments, Edirnekâri woodwork and a gallery of inscriptions and janissary gravestones complete the collection.