An amazing museum housing the enormous collection of a very wealthy person with lots of passionate interests (family-owned mega corporation that dominates Turkish industry). It's very well laid out and full of interactive exhibits, cutaways, dioramas (including a whole "street" of old Istanbul shops, from smithy and fisherman's to drugstore, cobbler's, olive oil factory, etc., or a mini-exhibition of "how it works" for kids). Plaques in English are VERY informative and comprehensive, if you read, you'll understand why the exhibit is interesting and meaningful, tons of learning there. Almost unlimited resources and enthusiasm of the founder mean that there's lots of very rare, significant, and unique exhibits that are also touchable and even fully accessible (like a Mussolini era art deco railcar, a London double decker bus, and a DC-3 airliner). Also, other rich Turkish "nerds" contributed their entire collections to the museum, like the huge railway models exhibit, or an exquisite steam machines collection, or a collection of rare Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs. It has entire ships (including the historic Fenerbahce ferry with a toy museum inside, or a genuine picket boat from HMS Hood), giant marine engines that work with a push of a button, and a whole building full of models that would make a scale modeller swoon. A large and very curated car collection (think Jay Leno), a rich Turkish boat history hall, a large motorcycles hall, a collcection of luxury motor boats, etc., etc. Impossible to see all in one day, but you can use an entire day to see the free exhibits on the outside (inc. a whole museum of a B-17 bomber recovered from the sea). Very good for kids, and lots of them were there.

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Awesome if the is rain outside

Svetlana V.

Level 9 Local Expert

Sooooo interesting. A bright spot in the sights of Istanbul. I definitely recommend it, especially to the male audience, but it was interesting for me too. We thought we'd go in for half an hour, but we wandered for two. An exhibition of retro cars that shine like new, well-groomed, and you don't know which one to take pictures with-one is better than the other. Boats of different sizes..and the atmospheric scene: a boy and a grandfather, an old fisherman, sitting in a fishing hut, listening to an old radio (and there was music playing right there)... I had some puzzles in my head and such a lingering emotion...It's like a picture from ,,the old man and the sea,,

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