İznik Türk İslam Eserleri Müzesi

This museum occupies the Nilüfer Hatun İmareti, a public soup kitchen and lodge that Sultan Murad I had built in İznik in 1388 in honor of his mother. After the founding of the Republic the building was used for storage, before being converted into İznik's archaeology museum in 1960, where it displayed finds spanning the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman periods. The building was closed for roughly eight years for restoration and a redesign of its exhibition spaces, reopening to the public on 3 July 2020 under its current name, the Turkish Islamic Arts Museum. Its collection now centers on İznik ceramics and tiles from the Ottoman and Seljuk eras, together with everyday objects illustrating social life of those periods, making the fourteenth-century imaret itself as much a part of the display as the artifacts inside it.