Aşiyan Museum
is the house of famous Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867–1915) at Aşiyan neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in Istanbul. It was built in 1906 and later in 1945 converted to a museum.The museum is owned by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality .
The ground floor consists of administrative offices. The first floor is reserved for Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1851-1937) and female poet Nigar Hanım (1856-1918), poets of the "New Literature Movement". In two separate rooms, paintings, photographs, books and personal belongings of both poets are on display.
In the second floor, Tevfik Fikret's study and bedroom are situated. Here, his personal belongings, his writing desk, armchair, drawings and paintings made by him are exhibited. In the bedroom, a death mask of him is also on display. A painting of then Ottoman Shahzada Abdülmecid (1868-1944), which he created in inspiration of Tevfik Fikret's poem "Sis" (English: fog), hangs on the wall at this floor.
