List of museums and monuments in Istanbul

This list of museums and monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, includes the relevant architectural entities within Istanbul's city limits.

(in alphabetical order; Turkish-language name in parentheses where appropriate)

• ;Castles and palaces:

• Anadoluhisarı

• Beylerbeyi Palace

• Boukoleon Palace

• Dolmabahçe Palace

• Great Palace of Constantinople

• Küçüksu Pavilion

• Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Tekfur Sarayı)

• Rumelihisarı

• Tekfur Palace (Tekfur Sarayı) (see Palace of the Porphyrogenitus)

• Topkapı Palace

• Yıldız Palace

• ;Monuments:

• Aviation Martyrs' Monument

• Column of Constantine (also known as the Burnt Column) (Çemberlitaş sütunu)

• Column of the Goths (Gotlar Sütunu)

• Column of Marcian (Kıztaşı, meaning "column of the girl")

• Milion, a mile-marker monument used for measuring the distances between the city (when known as Constantinople) and other cities of the Byzantine Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)

• Monument of Liberty

• Republic Monument

• Serpent Column

• ;Museums:

• Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar Literature Museum Library

• Doğançay Museum, contemporary-art museum

• Galatasaray Museum

• Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi)

• Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri)

• Istanbul Aviation Museum (İstanbul Havacılık Müzesi)

• Istanbul Military Museum (İstanbul Askeri Müze)

• Istanbul Modern Art Museum (İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi)

• Istanbul Naval Museum (İstanbul Deniz Müzesi)

• Istanbul Postal Museum (PTT İstanbul Müzesi)

• İstanbul State Art and Sculpture Museum (İstanbul Devlet Resim ve Heykel Müzesi)

• Istanbul Toy Museum (İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi)

• Istanbul UFO Museum (İstanbul UFO Müzesi)

• Istanbul Cinema Museum (İstanbul Sinema Müzesi)

• Istanbul Zoology Museum

• Museum of the Ancient Orient (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))

• Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature

• Museum of Illumination and Heating Appliances (Aydınlatma ve Isıtma Araçları Müzesi)

• The Museum of Innocence (Masumiyet Müzesi)

• Museum of Islamic Art (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri))

• Panorama 1453 History Museum

• Pera Museum

• Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

• Rahmi M Koç Museum

• Rezan Has Museum

• Sadberk Hanım Museum

• Sakıp Sabancı Museum

• SALT

• SantralIstanbul (includes the SantralIstanbul Museum of Energy and a modern-art museum)

• TGC Press Media Museum (Basın Müzesi)

• Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi)

• ;Religious buildings:

• Arap Mosque (Dominican Church of St. Paul)

• Blue Mosque (popular name for the Sultan Ahmed Mosque)

• Bodrum Mosque (Myrelaion)

• Bulgarian St. Stephen Church (also known as the Bulgarian Iron Church) (Sveti Stefan Kilisesi)

• Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (also known as the St. Esprit Cathedral)

• Chora Church (Kariye Müzesi, Kariye Camii or Kariye Kilisesi — the Chora Museum, Mosque or Church, respectively)

• Fatih Mosque

• Fenari Isa Mosque (Theotokos tou Libos)

• Fethiye Museum (see Pammakaristos Church)

• Hagia Irene (Aya İrini)

• Hagia Sophia

• Kalenderhane Mosque (Theotokos Kyriotissa)

• Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex

• Little Hagia Sophia (Ss. Sergius and Bacchus Church)

• Monastery of Stoudios

• Mosque of the Stablemaster (İmrahor Camii) (see Monastery of Stoudios)

• Ortaköy Mosque

• Pammakaristos Church

• Rüstem Pasha Mosque

• St. Esprit Cathedral (see Cathedral of the Holy Spirit)

• Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque (Sokollu Pasa Camii)

• Süleymaniye Mosque

• Sultan Ahmed Mosque (popularly known as the Blue Mosque)

• Zeyrek Mosque (Church of Christos Pantokrator)

• ;Others:

• Galata Mevlevihanesi (Galata Convent of the Whirling Dervishes)

• Galata Tower

• The Gate of Galatasaray High School

• Hippodrome of Constantinople

• Walls of Constantinople

• Yedikule (Seven Towers) Castle

Related lists

 * List of architectural structures in Istanbul
 * List of columns and towers in Istanbul
 * List of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul
 * List of Istanbulites
 * List of libraries in Istanbul
 * List of mayors of Istanbul
 * List of schools in Istanbul
 * List of urban centers in Istanbul
 * List of universities in Istanbul