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Located at the Crown Prince Apartments of the Dolmabahce palace, The Museum of Turkish Painting and Sculpture was opened in 1937 following the orders Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the president of Turkish republic as first art museum of Turkey. The museum which was closed during the Second World War was reopened in 1951. The museums permanent collections contains the works of famous Turkish painters right from the beginning up to present day. The paintings of Military painters, a collection of Turkish painters graduated from European and Turkish Fine Arts Academies, Turkish impressionist, sculptures are among the works of art displayed in the Museum. One of the masterpieces of the museum is Osman Hamdi Beys work " gun merchant". The museum has paintings of Seker Ahmet Pasa, Osman hamdi Bey, Halil Pasa, Sevket dag, Ibrahim Calli, Avni lifij, Cemal Tollu, Elif Naci, Turgut Zaim and other well known Turkish Painters.
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