Tiled Kiosk Museum
The Tiled Kiosk Museum, also known as the Sırça Palace, is a work of early Ottoman architecture. This museum, which was built in Sarayburnu in 1472 by order of Fatih Sultan Mehmet, is located within the Topkapı Palace Wall. The architect who stepped in to create this work of art is unknown.
It contains Seljuk influences and can be counted as one of the rare examples that reflect the civil architecture of the Ottoman Empire. In addition to its facade decorated with columns, the fact that it consists of cut tiles can be considered as an indicator of the early Ottoman period, which was under the influence of the Seljuks.
The fate of the Tiled Kiosk Museum, which was originally built for residence, has changed since 1880. It can also be said that in the last period of the Ottoman Empire, it came to a different task in order to exhibit the imperial works and to include Islamic elements. However, when it was attached to Topkapı Palace in 1939, it temporarily completed its duty as a museum. Afterwards, it showed its activities under the roof of Istanbul Archeology Museums in 1981. Today, it awaits its visitors in order to exhibit the works of tile art in the Turkish Islamic civilization. These works are listed according to regions and dates.
