The Ara Güler Museum is a photography museum in the Şişli district of İstanbul. Its purpose is to take the archive of the photographer Ara Güler, who worked for seventy years, into safekeeping and to pass it on to later generations.
The museum was agreed on in 2016 in a collaboration between the Doğuş Group and Güler, and opened on 16 August 2018 with an exhibition drawn from his archive, The Whistling Man. That year it was given the Ministry Special Prize by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Its second exhibition, on the theme of Aphrodisias, was shown in 2019.
The building stands on the site of the historic Bomonti brewery, formed by renewing and converting four vaulted structures on a construction area of 971 square metres. The complex was designed by a team of architects made up of Pınar Gökbayrak, Ali Eray, Burçin Yıldırım and Berin Erikçi. Portable walls inside allow the galleries to be arranged as wanted, and let the space be changed without harming the historic building or disturbing its original fabric.
When to go
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- Across İstanbul as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.8 °C in January to 24.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in July (22 mm). Long-term means for 1950-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
