The first museum of its kind, established in Turkey, opened on September 20, 1937 at the Dolma Palace, a delight in the region of Pisktash in the European section of Istanbul. After the Crown Wing was assigned to the palace of the Academy of Fine Arts.
The main core of the museum's antiques collection is the paintings collected by the Ottoman Mbusan Council for display in the Museum of the Khomeim, consisting of paintings by 85 Turkish artists, as well as paintings of antique paintings by famous European artists. This collection was named Elvah-ı Nakşiy Decorative panels. In addition to this collection, the museum contains paintings purchased and donated.
The museum contains more than 2000 paintings and 400 statues, most of which date back to the 19th and 20th centuries. These paintings belong to artists such as: Shukr Ahmed Pasha, a famous Ottoman soldier and painter, sent by Sultan Abdul Aziz to Paris after He saw his interest and passion in drawing, to work there in the workshops of the painter Jean-Leon Gerome, Hussein al-Gheiriti, Selimln Syed, a first-generation pioneer of Turkish painting, Ahmed Shakur Hussein Dkai Pasha, a military painter in the Ottoman era and one of the first artists Who worked the Western way for the first time in Turkey. The museum also features paintings by the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts Osman Hamdi Bey, the first archeologist in Turkey. The museum also features statues of the sculptor Yrente Oron, the first teacher at the Academy.
This museum, which displays the process of painting and sculpture in Turkey, displays the works of well-known artists such as Abdeen Dino and Badri Rahmi as well as the works of many famous painters and sculptors.
The images of the animals at the top of the three-storey paintings of the baroque and rococo decorations are in construction and clearly show that construction is part of the building of my grandiose building, such as the building of the Agdali Palace.
The museum remained closed between 1976 and 1980 as a result of the fire. After 1980, in cooperation with the Union of the Museum of Painting and Sculpture, an exhibition of contemporary artists was organized, which earned the technical university many new artists.
