Elgiz Museum — Attraction in Sarıyer

Elgiz Museum is a new private museum located at the business district of Istanbul, Maslak. It is my first visit there. First, below is the Wikipedia entry for the museum: //

Wikipedia

Elgiz Museum (Turkish: Elgiz Müzesi) is a private collection museum, founded by Dr. Can Elgiz.

The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art. Established with a mission to promote the development of contemporary art in Turkey, the initiative focused on giving space, support and international visibility to projects by young Turkish artists. As new art institutions and museums bloomed in Turkish art scene in 2005, the collectors converted the space to a private collection museum under the name ‘Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art’ to host the Elgiz Collection.

Elgiz Museum is located in the dynamic business district of Istanbul, Maslak and is open to the public free of charge.

// The permanent collection is on the ground floor, the terrace hosts the current exhibit which I found very interesting. This is a small museum...

Formerly known as Proje4L, this museum was founded more than a decade ago to promote contemporary art in the city. Though this museum showcases a few classics by Gilbert & George, Cindy Sherman, and Barbara Kruger, it also regularly hosts young up-and-coming artists and local curators. Situated in one of the city’s high-rises, it even has an open-air terrace for experimental, mixed-medium art pieces.

open from Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm, and on Saturdays from 10am to 4pm. It is...

Unknown to the broader public but respected by international collectors, the city's oldest non-profit space for contemporary art hides away in a plaza in Maslak. Set up by Sevda and Can Elgiz in 2001 with the help of art-world doyen Vasıf Kortun, it displays temporary exhibitions alongside selections from the founders' personal collection. (Cornucopia...