Istanbul Military Museum

The military museum and culture center was renovated and reopened at its present building in 1993 with a very successful and contemporary exhibition concept.

Outside the museum, interesting Ottoman cannons and mortars, a rail gun, aircraft, helicopters are on display.

It holds striking historical treasures such as the chain that the Byzantines stretched across the mouth of the Golden Horn to keep out the Mehmed II's navy in 1453[2] during the siege of Constantinople.

On the ground floor, the display of bows and arrows[3] in the first room is followed by sections containing the weapons and other regalia of the cavalry, curved daggers and lancets carried by foot soldiers in the 15th century, 17th century copper head armor for horses and Ottoman shields carried by the janissaries, and sections devoted to Selim I, Mehmed II, the conquest of Istanbul, weaponry from the early Islamic, Iranian, Caucasian, European and Turkish periods.

This floor also houses a unique collection of helmets and armor, as well as the sections allocated to firearms and great field tents used by sultans on their campaigns.

Main building of Military Museum.
Istanbul Military Museum.
A display of cannon .
The chain, which the Byzantines stretched across the mouth of the Golden Horn to keep out the navy of Mehmed II in 1453 during the siege of Constantinople .