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The Historian · Zeynep · Istanbul

Pera Museum

Tepebaşı · Museum · $$

Its Orientalist canvases show how the West imagined us — and one Ottoman painter who answered back. That argument is the history.

A private museum in a 19th-century Pera hotel, strong on Orientalist painting and Anatolian material culture.

— Zeynep, The Historian
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