Naval Museum

   
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The Naval Museum, harbouring artifacts from the history of Turkish naval warfare, was founded in 1897 at the Taskizak Docks. The museum moved to the district of Kasimpasa along the Golden Horn in 1940's. Twenty years later, it was relocated to the finance building in Besiktas. Among the objects displayed are some of Ataturk's personal belongings, his photos, objects from yachts he used in the Ataturk's Room; objects and paintings of Savarona Yacht in which Ataturk stayed in the Savarona Room; the name plates, portraits, personal belongings of Turkish Seamen killed in battles or died while performing their missions in the Martyrs Room; hand made and printed maps showing the Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean World from 1461 and 19th in the Maps and Charts Room; Turkish Naval uniforms in the Uniform Room; the galleon of the Sultan Mehmet IV,original rowboats used by the Turkish court personnel until the 20th. century in the Caiques Gallery; ship anchors , naval and land cannons , torpedoes, inscriptions of naval buildings, tombstones of Turkish seamen and the German Submarine UB 46 sunk in the Black Sea in 1916.

 

 

 

 

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Naval Museum

Iskele Caddesi, Besiktas

Telephone: 90-212-2610040

Open daily except Mondays and Tuesdays, 09:30-17:00