{"id":4759,"date":"2012-06-14T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T11:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:09:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:09:17","slug":"ottoman-harem-topkapi-palace-exhibition-4759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/ottoman-harem-topkapi-palace-exhibition-4759\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottoman harem revived in new Topkap\u0131 Palace exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The little-known details and inner workings of the Ottoman harem are now on display in a new exhibition that opened this week at \u0130stanbul’s historic Topkap\u0131 Palace Museum.<\/h1>\n

Titled \u201cPadi\u015fah\u0131n Evi: Harem-i H\u00fcmayun\u201d or \u201cThe Sultan’s Home: The Imperial Harem,\u201d the exhibition was inaugurated on Tuesday evening at the museum’s Has Ah\u0131rlar (imperial stables) Exhibit Hall with a ceremony attended by Culture and Tourism Minister Ertu\u011frul G\u00fcnay.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the opening, G\u00fcnay told reporters that the harem was an \u201cintegral part of the Ottoman court, which ruled a huge part of the world for more than 400 years.\u201d Noting that the popularity of the concept of a \u201charem\u201d led to false impressions, G\u00fcnay said the new exhibition would help correct perceptions of the Ottoman harem.<\/p>\n

A joint effort between the Topkap\u0131 Palace Museum and the Ankara-based Bilkent Cultural Initiative (BKG), \u201cPadi\u015fah\u0131n Evi: Harem-i H\u00fcmayun\u201d is made up of around 300 items, including various personal belongings and objects used by the Ottoman sultans, their wives and children, written documents from the palace’s archives and works of art depicting life in the Ottoman court and the harem, such as gravures and miniatures.<\/p>\n

The exhibit’s four sections recount how the harem was built, its hierarchical structure, the daily life in the harem and the lives of the Ottoman imperial family and their relationship with the harem.<\/p>\n

Topkap\u0131 Palace Museum President \u0130lber Ortayl\u0131 said during Tuesday’s opening that museums were \u201cpart of history education,\u201d adding, \u201cThis is why we put together \u2026 this exhibition, which is the first of its kind \u2026 anywhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that this exhibition will be seen by our people over the next four months and an important [collection] will thus be utilized,\u201d Professor Ortayl\u0131 added.<\/p>\n

\u201cPadi\u015fah\u0131n Evi: Harem-i H\u00fcmayun\u201d will continue until Oct. 15 at the Topkap\u0131 Palace Museum’s Has Ah\u0131rlar Exhibit Hall.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The little-known details and inner workings of the Ottoman harem are now on display in a new exhibition that opened this week at \u0130stanbul’s historic Topkap\u0131 Palace Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,7877,137,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-politics","category-sectoral","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8504,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}