Grand Palace Mosaics Museum
Grand Palace Mosaics Museum is located in the south of Sultanahmet
Mosque, within the complex of buildings of the mosque. The museum was
built in a way to accommodate the mosaics which is partially intact in
the northeastern part of the courtyard of the Grand Palace.
While Grand Palace Mosaics, dating back to 450-550 A.D. were masterfully
woven, no religious themes can be seen in the mosaics. The themes are
from daily life and nature, and there are scented depicting gryphon
eating a lizard, fight of an elephant and a lion, breeding of a mare,
children feeding geese, man milking a goat, child feeding his donkey,
young girl carrying a jug, bears eating apples and fight between a
hunter and a tiger.
Grand Palace Mosaics Museum was opened in 1953 as part of the Istanbul
Archeological Museums and became a part of St. Sophia Museum in 1979. A
restoration of the mosaics started with a project prepared in the
framework of a protocol agreement made between Ministry of Culture
General Directorate of Monuments and Museums and Austria Academy of
Sciences in 1982. These restorational works was completed in 1997.
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FETHIYE
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