Museum of Great Palace Mosaics

It is a marvellous and unfortunately generally unknown museum in the historical peninsula of Istanbul. Moreover, it mainly consists of Eastern Roman mosaics from the Great Byzantine Palace in the Hippodrome. I have been able to visit the worldly famous Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, and its artistic value was not more than the one in Sultanahmet.

There is good collection of very old mosaics...

Ancient mosaics, nice experience of visiting the place. Easy to find and access, friendly staff :)

HOME OF EVERYDAY LIFE, NATURE AND MYTHOLOGY MOSAICSnThe mosaics unearthed in excavations in the northeastern section of the cloister in Eastern Roman Grand Palace in 1935, are magnificent both in terms of artistic and in terms of the richness of depictions of the scenes. The works exhibited in the Great Palace Mosaics Museum, dated between 450-550 AD do not have religious content. The depictions taken from daily life, nature and mythology probably owe their vitality to the many experts under the leadership of the leading masters of the era.nnThe museum is located inside the Arasta Market in the Blue Mosque Complex, and it was formed to cover the mosaic floor treatment which remained partially preserved in the northeastern part of the colonnaded courtyard of the Great Palace belonging to the Eastern Roman Period. Only 180 square meters of the mosaic area was uncovered.

It was good. But it's ticket is more high 30 liras which is not good. Nobody comes here much. We found it very less worth. Thigh it hS a rich history and archiologists will find it very well.