Age
0+
Group size
1-15
Language
English
Duration
3 hours
Transport
Indoors
About this experience
Join us on a journey through the seas and oceans—from Africa to India, from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. You will see unique galleries and sultan's ships, Barbarossa's tomb, and Piri Reis map. And you will also learn about the fate of one of the most powerful fleets of the 16-17th centuries.
What to Expect
- Sultan's Galley—the only surviving original galley from the 16-17th centuries.
- Sultan's ships, on which rulers sailed along the shores of Istanbul, crossed the Bosphorus, and the Golden Horn.
- Models of galleons of the Ottoman fleet and ships from the late period.
- Piri Reis Map (replica), depicting the coast of present America, which had not been discovered at that time.
- Barbarossa's Tomb—the burial place of one of the great talents of naval battle tactics.
- Analog computer from the 1970s—torpedo navigation system the size of a small car.
You will also see orders and uniforms, Ataturk's boats, busts of sailors, and much more!
You will learn:
- How the struggle for supremacy in the Indian Ocean went
- How Mehmed II, who had not yet captured Constantinople, managed to take control of the straits
- What significance the island of Rhodes had
- Which battle influenced the future of the Ottoman Empire
- How a former captive of Byzantium managed to gain control of the Dardanelles strait
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