Archaeological Museum
The building next to the Topkapı Palace is a museum building reaching the present day from the Ottoman period. A museum complex consisting of three large buildings was brought into existence by transforming the old Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi (School of Fine Art ) to the Old Eastern Works Museum, and organizing and opening the Tiled Pavilion as the Tile Museum. The building, which was built across the Tiled Pavilion and Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi as Müze-i Humayun (Imperial Museum) during the sultanate years of Sultan Abdülhamid II and which is still used as the Archaeological Museum, was designed by the famous architect of the period Alexandre Vallaury between the years of 1891 and 1907 in three stages. This building complex, which is used as the center of the Istanbul Archaeological Museum today, encircle the Tiled Pavilion in U-shape with its wings that were added in the second and third stages, and it creates a museum place integrated with this settlement. It is one of the most beautiful samples of the Neo-Classical architecture.
