List of museums and monuments in Istanbul

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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

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