Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is hosting Osman Hamdi Bey ve Amerikalılar: Arkeoloji, Diplomasi ve Sanat (Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans: Archaeology, Diplomacy and Art) exhibition.

Based on the intersecting lives of painter, archaeologist and museologist Osman Hamdi Bey (the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums), American archaeologist/photographer John Henry Haynes, and German Assyriologist/archaeologist Prof. Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht, the exhibition focuses on the first excavations American archaeologists conducted in Ottoman lands -Assos and Nippur- and the diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The exhibition is curated by Prof. Renata Holod and Prof. Robert Ousterhout from the University of Pennsylvania and covers a rich selection of paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeological photographs and drawings from the 19th century, letters, travel journals, and archaeological artifacts displayed for the first time. This unique selection is on loan from the University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Museum Boston, İstanbul Archaeological Museums, İstanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, and private collections. Apart from his lesser-known paintings, two unknown works of Osman Hamdi Bey discovered at the Penn Museum are also on display.

The exhibition will remain open at Pera Museum until January 8, 2012.

Visiting Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00-19:00
Sunday:  12:00 – 18:00
Closed on Mondays and January 1, 2012.

Pera Müzesi
Meşrutiyet Caddesi, 141
Beyoglu, Istanbul
Tel: (212) 334 99 00



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