Edirne's museum of Turkish and Islamic art occupies the medrese southeast of the Selimiye Mosque, and has done since 1925. The building is the usual medrese arrangement: a main lecture room, students' rooms, and a colonnaded courtyard, with seventeen rooms now given over to display.
The courtyard is where the museum is at its most unusual, and it is worth walking slowly. A yew of monumental size stands in it, among 15th-century gravestones and janissary gravestones -- a type of which very few survive. Around them are inscriptions salvaged from Ottoman buildings, a section on Ottoman water culture, and, from a different world entirely, field kitchens, a gun and cannonballs used in the Balkan War. There is a seating area for visitors in the courtyard as well.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- Summer (1 May – 30 September) 09:00–19:00 · Winter (1 October – 30 April) 09:00–17:30
When to go
- Climate
- Across Edirne as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.8 °C in January to 24.8 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (71 mm) and lightest in August (23 mm). Long-term means for 1930-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
