İstanbul Mosaic Museum

The Great Palace mosaics, reflecting a matchless master ship, are dated by specialists to 450-550 AD. The white background of the mosaics resembles fish scales. The scenes depicted on the mosaics are from daily life and nature, rather than being religious. The scenes of a griffin eating a lizard, a fight between an elephant and a lion, a mare nursing her filly, children herding geese, a man milking a goat, a child feeding a donkey, a girl with a jug, bears eating apples and a fight between a hunter and a tiger are among the most spectacular examples displayed in the museum.

İstanbul Mosaic Museum was built on the northern section of the peristyle courtyard of the Great Palace of the Byzantine Empire, where mosaics used to decorate the pavement had been discovered partially in good condition.

• ZIYARET SAATLERI
  
  

  April-October Summer Opening Time	April-October Summer Closing Time	November-March Winter Opening Time	November-March Winter Closing Time	Closing Day
  09:00	19:00	09:00	17:00	Monday

  Ticket booths are closing 30 minutes or an hour before the museum closing time.
• ADRES BILGILERI

  Address	:	Sultanahmet, Eminönü
  Web Site	:	www.ayasofyamuzesi.gov.tr
  E-mail	:	mozaik@muze.gov.tr - ayasofyamuzesi@kulturturizm.gov.tr
  Phone	:	(212) 518 12 05
  Fax	:	(212) 512 54 74