The Galatasaray Stadium Museum is at the Ali Sami Yen Sports Complex, and it is the club's own account of itself: Galatasaray Spor Kulübü, founded in 1905, presents the museum as the record of a long line of firsts in Turkish sport, and of a side that in its own telling reached the level of the best team in the world in 2000.
One ticket covers three things — the museum, a film, and a tour of the stadium — and the whole visit runs about sixty minutes. The exhibition occupies 2,100 square metres and includes a cinema seating eighty.
The core of the collection is the trophy section: 778 cups and medals. The rest is arranged as a route through the club's history, from a literature class and the Grand Cour to the Taksim ground and then Ali Sami Yen, by way of Spor Sergi, Kalamış and, for the 2000 UEFA Cup, Copenhagen.
When to go
- Climate
- 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).
