You can explore Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi’s collection at the Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi (1899 – 1984): Architectural Historian, Restorator, Collector exhibition. The calligraphy works found in his collection are…

Aram Pehlivanyan, Sarkis Keçyan (Zanku), Zaven Biberyan and Avedis Aliksanyan published the first issue of the daily newspaper Nor Or (New Day) on 21 July 1945.…

The large part of the unparalleled collection Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi began to put together, not simply for the sale of creating a collection, but…

Prof. Doris Behrens-AbouseifIstanbul Conferences “Spices, Silk and Giraffes” Diplomatic gifts of the Mamluks to the Ottoman, Timurid, and European Courts Prof. Doris Behrens-Abouseif Prof.…

İstanbul Research Institute launches its first online exhibit on Google’s Cultural Institute platform. The exhibit Cities of the Three Books is centred on the photograph album that once…

İstanbul Research Institute presents the exhibition “An Ottoman Building in the Early Republican Era: The Şişli Mosque” with a selection from Suna and İnan…

Nazimî Yaver Yenal’s designs from his years as a student at the Sanayi-i Nefise in the 1920s shed light as much upon his search…

kabikaj: A talisman added to the frontispiece of an Ottoman text that is believed to protect the manuscript; a book spell. Najib brought his…

Alfons Maria Schneider, one of the polymaths of his time, illuminated the history of Istanbul with his research, digs and publications from the 1930s…

Long before the first tourists getting off steamships and the Orient-Express appeared on the banks of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, the performance…