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A New Exhibition at the Ottoman Bank Museum:
DEATH IN ISTANBUL
DEATH IN ISTANBUL
The Ottoman Bank Museum pursues its mission by investigating the past to foster a better understanding of the present. With its current exhibition, Death in Istanbul, the focus this time is on death, a concept as crucial to our existence as birth. Through documents, miniature paintings, engravings, period photographs, tombstones and various artifacts, the exhibition explores death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic culture. The display will remain on view from November 16, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
Death and its rituals in Ottoman-Islamic Culture November 16, 2005 - March 31, 2006 THE OTTOMAN BANK MUSEUM 35/37 Banks (Voyvoda) Street, Karaköy Curated by Prof. Edhem Eldem from the History Department at Boğaziçi University and designed by Bülent Erkmen, the exhibition is organized around seven main headings: City of the Dead, Ottoman-Islamic Death Culture, Empire and Death, Ottoman Tombstones, Ways of Dying, Aspects of Modernity and Death and Nationalism. By exploring different aspects of the Ottoman-Islamic funerary culture in Istanbul from the conception of death to inheritance law, from suicide to executions, from tombstones to the practice of fratricide and from the changing definition of martyrdom to funeral ceremonial, and their evolution over the vast period from 1453 to 1922, Death in Istanbul provides fascinating insights into the social structure, culture and mentalities of the population of the Ottoman capital during almost five centuries of its history. |
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