Istanbul’s Airport Museum, a rare treat

In 2020, Istanbul Airport opened a Museum accessible to those travelers having time to spare while transiting before their final destination or waiting for their departure flight.

A special space has been reserved upstairs, behind the duty-free shops to house a collection of artifacts from all over Turkey. 

[Picture from Daily Sabah]

The exhibition “Treasures of Turkey – Faces of Thrones” presents a rotating collection of some 300 works of art from 29 different museums. They cover prehistoric sculptures from Göbekli Tepe and Çatalhöyük, and objects from historical times, Lydian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman, and modern Turkey. 

The visitors will be treated to selected personal belongings of kings and emperors throughout the ages, statues, reliefs, manuscripts, cloths, thrones, jewelry, paintings, etc. The collection is said to change once or twice a year making it worthwhile to return every now and then.