Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Ottoman calligraphy collection in a Bosphorus villa, famed for landmark temporary exhibitions.
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The guide to Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul is built around a hillside villa, the Atlı Köşk, completed in 1927 and later home to the industrialist Sakıp Sabancı, who filled it with nearly four hundred pieces of Ottoman calligraphy before donating the mansion to Sabancı University. It turns to November 2005, when the museum staged Turkey's first major exhibition of a Western artist, Pablo Picasso, with paintings drawn straight from the artist's own family collection. Look closely at the calligraphy galleries before you reach the room where those canvases once hung.
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