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National Palaces Painting Museum;Painting Museum

📍 Beşiktaş, Istanbul

The Milli Saraylar Resim Müzesi, or National Palaces Painting Museum, gathers Ottoman-era painting under the care of the Milli Saraylar Başkanlığı, the Presidency of National Palaces. In a city where the imperial court shaped taste for centuries, this museum focuses on the visual world of the Ottoman dynasty, with works connected to palace life and the wider culture of the empire. Its Turkish name, Resim Müzesi, keeps the emphasis simple: painting, and the many ways it recorded power, ceremony, and everyday royal life. The museum’s setting in Beşiktaş also fits that story, because this part of Istanbul was closely tied to the late Ottoman court and its palatial world. …

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