Category
Museum
46 places
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtAn encyclopedic collection on Central Park's edge, open since 1870 — Egyptian temples, European painting and American rooms under one roof.Art Museum
- British MuseumA collection of world antiquities around a glass-roofed court, free to enter since it opened to the public.History Museum
- Topkapı PalaceSeat of Ottoman sultans for four centuries, a city of courtyards above the meeting of two seas.UNESCOPalace
- Museum of Modern ArtFounded in 1929 to collect what museums then refused: modern painting and sculpture, and also design, film and photography.Art Museum
- National September 11 Memorial & MuseumTwo square voids on the footprints of the towers, the names of the dead cut through the bronze around them.History Museum
- American Museum of Natural HistoryDinosaur halls, a blue whale hung overhead and a planetarium, in a museum that has been collecting since 1869.Science Museum
- National GalleryEuropean painting from the 1200s to 1900 on Trafalgar Square, from Van Eyck and Piero to Turner and Van Gogh.Art Museum
- Göreme Open Air MuseumA monastic valley of rock-cut churches, their Byzantine frescoes preserved by the dark and the dry air.UNESCOOpen Air Museum
- Natural History MuseumFossils, minerals and a blue whale skeleton in Alfred Waterhouse's terracotta halls in South Kensington.Science Museum
- Tate ModernModern and contemporary art in a former power station, with the Turbine Hall as its entrance and commission space.Art Museum
- Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumFrank Lloyd Wright's spiral ramp on Fifth Avenue, where visitors descend past the art instead of walking room to room.UNESCOArt Museum
- AnıtkabirAtatürk's mausoleum on a hill above the capital, approached along a colonnaded avenue of stone lions.Landmark
- Ellis IslandThe harbor station where arriving immigrants were inspected, registered, and admitted or sent back; the main building is now its museum.History Museum
- Victoria and Albert MuseumDesign and decorative arts across cultures and centuries, from cast courts of copied monuments to fashion and ceramics.Art Museum
- Dolmabahçe PalaceThe Ottoman answer to Versailles, where the empire spent its last treasury and Atatürk died in 1938.Palace
- Whitney Museum of American ArtAmerican art only, in a collection begun in 1931 by a sculptor whose own gift the Metropolitan had declined.Art Museum
- Science MuseumEngines, spacecraft and computing history, with hands-on galleries for children on the lower floors.Science Museum
- Museum of Anatolian CivilizationsHittite, Urartian and Phrygian collections in a restored bedesten below the castle — Anatolia in one building.History Museum
- Chora ChurchByzantium's finest surviving mosaics and frescoes, in a modest church far from the tourist spine.UNESCOChurch
- Royal ObservatoryThe observatory on the hill above Greenwich where the prime meridian is drawn and time was kept for shipping.UNESCOScience Museum
- The Frick CollectionA steel magnate's Fifth Avenue house kept as a home: Vermeer, Bellini and Holbein hang in rooms with fireplaces.Art Museum
- Churchill War RoomsThe underground rooms where Britain's wartime government worked, left much as they were when the lights went out in 1945.History Museum
- Imperial War Museum LondonHow war has been fought and lived through since 1914, from trench sections to a Holocaust gallery.History Museum
- Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn's own encyclopedic museum, open since 1897 and strongest in Egyptian art and American painting.Art Museum
- The Met CloistersMedieval European cloisters taken apart in France, shipped across the Atlantic and rebuilt above the Hudson as one museum.Art Museum
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumAn aircraft carrier moored on the Hudson, carrying a space shuttle and a Concorde on and beside its flight deck.Science Museum
- Istanbul Archaeology MuseumsThree buildings holding the Alexander Sarcophagus, the Treaty of Kadesh, and the Tiled Kiosk of 1472.History Museum
- Tenement MuseumOne Lower East Side tenement, its apartments restored to the years particular immigrant families lived in them; entry is by guided tour.History Museum
- Cutty SarkA tea clipper of 1869 held in dry dock, with the hull raised so visitors can walk beneath it.History Museum
- Antalya MuseumThe Hall of Gods, filled with sculpture lifted from Perge — one of Türkiye's strongest archaeological collections.History Museum
- Istanbul ModernTürkiye's first modern art museum, since 2023 in a Renzo Piano building on the Karaköy waterfront.Art Museum
- Sir John Soane's MuseumThe architect's own house kept as he left it, crowded with casts, paintings and an Egyptian sarcophagus.Museum
- Museum of Turkish and Islamic ArtsCarpets, calligraphy and Seljuk woodwork in İbrahim Pasha's 16th-century palace on the Hippodrome.Art Museum
- Beylerbeyi PalaceThe sultans' summer residence on the Asian shore, where Empress Eugénie was received in 1869.Palace
- Pera MuseumOrientalist painting and Anatolian weights and measures in a restored 1893 hotel.Art Museum
- Zelve Open Air MuseumThree valleys of cave dwellings inhabited until 1952, when the rock became too unstable.UNESCOOpen Air Museum
- Sakıp Sabancı MuseumCalligraphy and Ottoman painting in a Bosphorus villa, with a garden of sculpture above the water.Art Museum
- Great Palace Mosaic MuseumA surviving peristyle floor from the Byzantine imperial palace, hunting scenes rendered in tesserae.UNESCOHistory Museum
- Rahmi M. Koç MuseumIndustry, transport and communication — submarines, trams and a full Bosphorus ferry.Science Museum
- Museum of InnocenceOrhan Pamuk's novel built as a physical collection — 4,213 cigarette butts among the vitrines.Art Museum
- MiniatürkTurkish monuments built at 1:25, laid out along the Golden Horn.Open Air Museum
- Panorama 1453 History MuseumA 360-degree painted panorama of the final assault, standing where the walls were breached.History Museum
- SALT GalataResearch library and exhibition space inside the former Ottoman Bank headquarters.Gallery
- Istanbul Naval MuseumImperial caiques — gilded royal barges up to forty meters long — in a purpose-built hall.History Museum
- CerModernContemporary art in the converted railway maintenance sheds beside the main station.Gallery
- Tekfur PalaceThe only substantially intact Byzantine palace left in the city, wedged into the land walls.Palace