BAU Department of Preschool Education Visits the Archaeology Museum

Students of the BAU Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Preschool Education visited the Archaeology Museum located on Istanbul's historic peninsula. As noted in various sources, the Archaeology Museum, founded under the name Müze-i Hümayun by Osman Hamdi Bey, who worked as a museologist in addition to being a painter and archaeologist, has been welcoming visitors since 1891. Housing more than one million artifacts from different civilizations, the museum is one of the largest museums in the world.

The museum, with exhibition halls that tell the story of Anatolia's and Istanbul's place in history and house the heritage of past civilizations, also has a Children's Museum. It also has stone artifacts of different sizes, pottery, terracotta sculptures, coins, seals and medals, as well as a library of around 70,000 books. Students of the BAU Faculty of Educational Sciences Department of Preschool Education also examined priceless works such as the Alexander Sarcophagus, the Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women and the Tabnit Sarcophagus. In addition to the sarcophagi, they visited valuable works depicting the evolution of sculpture from the Archaic Period to the Byzantine Period.

The Istanbul Archaeology Museum, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1991, received the Council of Europe Museum Prize.