The world's largest visual show, The Conquest of Istanbul, comes to life at the Panorama Museum. In the dome of the museum, which combines history and technology, the conquest of Istanbul finds its place in light, sound and visual. Impressive scenes from the movie "Sultan Mehmed's Dream" take visitors to the day of conquest. Visual show in the world's first full panoramic museum; It is built on an area of 2 thousand 350 square meters, at an angle of 360 degrees.
The world's first full panoramic museum 'Panorama 1453 History Museum' is hosting a digital feast for the first time in Turkey. Kültür A.Ş., one of the affiliates of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB). Panorama 1453 restored the History Museum. Bringing history and technology together, the museum offers its visitors a 3D museum experience with the visual show of Sultan Mehmed's Dream.
SULTAN MEHMED'S DREAM
On the morning of May 29, 1453, Constantinople, which was besieged by 23 armies in front of the Edirnekapı walls, was besieged by the Ottoman army and was about to fall. While Boğazkesen was being built across the Anatolian Fortress, Constantinople, which offers all the richness of Orthodox culture, appears in all its glory behind the walls. The Shah's cannons, which changed the history of the world war, are poured, and Constantine rejects the calls to surrender. Before long, the city is besieged by the Ottoman army of 80 thousand people under the leadership of Sultan Mehmed, who has sworn to take Constantinople, and the Conquest that will change the history of the world begins.
GET READY TO WITNESS THE MORNING OF 1453!
The museum, which was built on a hemisphere with a diameter of 38 meters, near the Edirnekapı, Topkapı and Silivrikapı walls, where the most important moments of the conquest were experienced, next to the gate where Sultan Mehmet entered the city, draws visitors in from every aspect with its panoramic feature. Bringing history and technology together with the integration of mapping, the museum invites its visitors to witness the “Dream of Sultan Mehmed” after centuries in this area where the dream of conquest is seen.
TECHNOLOGY CARRYING HISTORY TO THE PRESENT
The mapping show, which depicts the journey of Istanbul, the pearl of a geography that has hosted the most ancient civilizations in history, from Constantinople to Istanbul, is a part of the II. It presents a visual feast that starts with Mehmet's princedom and focuses on how his passion to conquer Constantinople turns into reality step by step.
Prepared under the consultancy of Antalya Bilim University Professor of International Relations, Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences Mesut Uyar, the show sheds light on historical details as well as its visual richness.
FROM FOUNDATION TO LAST SOUL: PADISAH PORTRAITS
Panorama 1453 History Museum, which almost re-lives the Conquest of Istanbul with panoramic pictures, sounds and drawings, is also at the entrance of the museum and at the -1. It presents a chronological selection to its visitors with the Portraits of the Sultan exhibition on the XNUMXst floor.
Starting with Osman Gazi, the founder and first sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the exhibition features portraits of 36 sultans who ascended to the throne in the founding, rise and last period of the Ottoman Empire, until the last sultan, Sultan Vahdettin. The portraits were taken from the Atatürk Library to be exhibited.
WHO IS NUSRET COLPAN?
Panorama 1453 History Museum also hosts an exhibition of contemporary muralist Nusret Çolpan called Conquest in Miniatures.
Born in Bandırma in 1952, Nusret Çolpan studied at Yıldız University Faculty of Architecture. Dr. She took “Turkish Decorative Arts” lessons from A. Süheyl Ünver and Azade Akar. Benefiting from the discipline and vision he gained in architecture, he brought a unique line and color to miniature. The influence of Matrakçı Nasuh, who lived in the Kanuni era, is seen in his works. The artist, who has worked in miniature for 35 years, has approximately 300 works in different collections, including official structures, at home and abroad. Nusret Çolpan passed away in 2008.
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