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Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m 2 of mosaics. [2] It opened to the public on 9 September 2011. The 30,000 m 2 (320,000 sq ft) museum features 2,448 m 2 (26,350 sq ft) of mosaic and replaces the Bardo National Museum in Tunis as the world's largest mosaic museum.
The Great Palace Mosaic Museum in Istanbul. The Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Turkish: Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi), is located close to Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, at Arasta Bazaar. The museum houses mosaics from the Byzantine period, unearthed at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople.
The museum was opened to the public in 1948 and re-opened in 1975 following renovation and expansion. [ 2 ] With 3,500 sqm of mosaics displayed in 10,700 sqm of exhibition space and 32,754 sqm of total indoor space, the museum is claimed to be the largest mosaic museum in the world.
The museum opened in 2015, and replaced the former museum of Şanlıurfa on Çamlık street. With a closed area of 34,000 square metres (370,000 sq ft), it is one of the biggest museums of in Turkey. [2] The museum consists of two major buildings. To the north is the archaeology museum and to the south is the mosaic museum.
Zeugma (Ancient Greek: Ζεῦγμα; Syriac: ܙܘܓܡܐ) was an ancient Hellenistic era Greek and then Roman city of Commagene; located in modern Gaziantep Province, Turkey. It was named for the bridge of boats , or zeugma , [ 1 ] that crossed the Euphrates at that location. [ 2 ]
Narlıkuyu Mosaic Museum is a small museum in Narlıkuyu, Turkey that encompasses a Roman bath with a mosaic tile floor. The mosaic depicts the Three Graces . Location
They were restored after the building was secularized and turned into a museum. The neighborhood is situated in the western part of the municipality of Fatih district. Depiction of the Chora Church/Mosque, c. 1900 Chora Church/Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 1903 survey. Brooklyn Museum Archives, W. H. Goodyear Collection
The Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology (Turkish: Gaziantep Arkeoloji Müzesi) is an archaeological museum located in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey. It housed for some years a collection of mosaics, most of which were excavated from the ancient Roman city site of Zeugma. A new museum, the Zeugma Mosaic Museum now houses those. After an overhaul of ...