The İstanbul University Rıdvan Çelikel Archaeological Museum stands within the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Letters on the Vezneciler campus of İstanbul University. It opened on 1 July 2019.
The collection is made up of archaeological works from different regions of Türkiye, reaching from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. It holds material of the Anatolian civilisations in particular — Hittite, Phrygian, Urartian, Lydian, Persian — together with Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine works, and jewellery, coins, statues and other pieces from the various cultures of Anatolia.
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).
