Hagia Sophia History and Experience Museum
34 reviews
December 4, 2024
A competently and efficiently organized installation with excellent visual. Audio guide with a good translation into Russian. I would like to note the presentation of information: briefly, on the main events and dates, it is not delayed and gives a general idea. Movement through the halls of the museum takes place as part of a small group of people, a dozen or one and a half, there is no crowd.
The technical support is at an excellent level, relative to other museums in Istanbul.
Loud music in the background may confuse you, you should be careful when visiting with young children. But the volume is not higher than in any cinema.
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February 5
The main point is the multimedia museum!
There are very few exhibits here, some of them are not from the cathedral, but simply to demonstrate analogues.
In fact, a mini-group is assembled at the entrance and led through the rooms, where clips about the creation of the temple and its history are shown, but only since 1453.
The museum itself costs 800 lire.
At the ticket office of St. Sophia Cathedral, they actively advise you to take tickets with the museum.
If you do not know at all about the history of the temple, then it will be interesting and useful to visit this museum. However, it is better to go here before visiting the temple itself.
However, in other cases, you can safely skip it.
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March 23
Overall, it's a fun interactive museum. In addition to the interactive show, there is a good exhibition of Islamic manuscripts and, unexpectedly, Orthodox icons from the 18th and 19th centuries.
It's not worth the money for my taste, but if you follow all sorts of museum maps, it's worth a look if the queue is small.
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March 6
They launch in groups, give you an audio guide with a large selection of languages at the entrance, then you are led through many halls where a video sequence is projected on the walls (and audio accompaniment is provided in the audio guide with headphones). The tour covers the main historical milestones of the cathedral. There are already exhibitions in the last halls where you can freely explore everything yourself - mainly icons, books, coins, etc. We bought a shared ticket and visited the museum after visiting the cathedral - in general, it would work as an addition, but I wouldn't go here on purpose - it doesn't draw on the museum, rather multimedia entertainment
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February 9
The museum is dedicated to the 17th century history of Hagia Sophia. As of February 2025, the ticket price is 950 liras. At the entrance, a group of about 12-15 people is gathered and each is given an audio guide with headphones. When the audio guide is issued, your language is adjusted. It is better to hold the device in your hand so that when moving from room to room, the sensor reads the location and turns on the desired audio track. The translation into Russian is high-quality. The information is provided competently, without delaying, the most basic and important points. The 3D picture on the walls allows you to visually absorb information. The music in the background is a bit loud, but not critical. After visiting the virtual part, you will find a small exhibit of exhibits. You can walk and take pictures. There is a free toilet at the exit, a women's toilet on the second floor, a men's toilet on the ground floor at the exit of the museum. The only way out of the museum is through the souvenir shop, which is expensive, of course. I really enjoyed the tour itself. I recommend you to visit.
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March 2
It is very interesting and informative! A modern exhibition, even children aged 11 and 13 were interested. They give you headphones with high-quality voice acting in Russian. I liked everything, I recommend it
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January 2
Why do you visit the mosque first and then the museum? Was the child in charge of this, or just an indifferent person? Or maybe ticket sales are closer to the mosque? How can you show a mosque, and only then explain what this ancient structure has survived? And you will have already completed the museum, the players with interference, you could have given out glasses and made three-dimensional presentations, not 100 lira entrance, as it were. Everything seems interesting, but not finalized.
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January 28
It was my dream to visit Istanbul. And visiting Hagia Sophia is something out of the ordinary... But all dreams can come true (so be careful)and when they come true... Fasten your seat belts, hold on and have the most fun.
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March 17
A chic modern museum for citizens of any country, there are audio guides in any language, very prudent in this regard, thanks to the organizers of this museum.
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April 9, 2024
It was a real surprise at the end of the vacation - the Hagia Sophia History Museum on Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. I strongly recommend visiting before you go to the temple of all religions itself – the Hagia Sophia Mosque.
The exposition on the two upper floors turned out to be unexpected for me. Prepared for visitors using the most famous technologies in the field of special effects. In 3D format, you will be shown the history of the creation and destruction of the famous temple. A free audio guide with an excellent audio version is included. There is one in Russian too. I went to the museum absolutely without interest, for the company of my wife. During the visit, I was pleasantly surprised, and that's putting it mildly: A supermuseum, high–tech gadgets - at every step. At the entrance, the guide forms a small group, invites you inside a high–tech elevator - and forward into fiction.
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March 15
I really liked it. The museum is very coolly made. Informative and interesting. Especially if it's your first time visiting A
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March 12
It's very interesting and spectacular. Interactive pictures make an impression. The downside is that we've been queuing for a long time to get in, but it's worth it!
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March 2
A place where you can go to understand the history of St. Sophia Cathedral. Preferably before visiting the Cathedral itself .
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October 3, 2024
They offer to buy a ticket at the ticket office in Sofia.
It gives you the opportunity to go to it (Sofia) for 3 days when buying, and not day in and day out.
There are practically no queues in the evening, it's convenient.
But I didn't like the museum itself.
20 minutes of presentation in history.
Every 5 minutes, for some reason, you need to move from the hall to the hall, your legs get tired after all the excursions. It would be more logical to make 1 hall and benches.
The presentation itself is not very interesting and provides little knowledge.
The sound in the halls is too loud and may even interrupt the sound in the audio guide.
The queue at the entrance is small, but it's still a very long time to wait. Since they let in a group. The group walks together in an organized way.
We lost money, time and energy. The museum is not worth attention.
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October 23, 2024
if you go here, it's really better to get to the mosque, so that you can then consider the details that were discussed in the museum
first, a presentation with brief excursions into the history of construction and restoration
then there are several rooms with Muslim and Christian relics
There are even relics, but it is unclear whose
the first part with very loud music and fast-changing painted pictures is not very pleasant
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November 9, 2024
I recommend visiting this museum BEFORE visiting Hagia Sophia. After that, the cathedral itself will sparkle with new colors
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April 10, 2024
They offer it along with a ticket to Sofia itself. In my opinion, it's better to go here first. An audio guide is given at the entrance and a specially trained person leads from room to room, where they show animation on the story to epic music. You can take pictures, you can't take pictures, but we were so stunned by the music and visual that it was not up to the photo)
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March 19
They let us in groups, we must wait.
There are almost no exhibits, only short cartoons in every room, everything is very loud.
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March 16
Be sure to visit. Very interesting. It's better to take a guide. You won't understand anything without it.
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November 2, 2024
Very well done!! I bought a ticket by mistake and never regretted it! Goosebumps all the way!
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April 1, 2024
An interactive museum and an exhibition of artifacts. Very interesting! In all audio languages. The children were delighted.
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December 13, 2024
Models and installations, a good story. A neutral approach.
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April 13, 2024
We bought tickets to Aya Sofia (2nd floor), and they included this museum. He complemented the impressions and showed the power of Byzantium at that time. Another interesting tank of the former Racetrack is Nakkash.
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October 5, 2024
It was interesting. The icons left special impressions
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May 22, 2024
A great museum. I advise you to visit before visiting the museum. The price tag is not small. For May 2024, the ticket cost 25 euros.
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January 7
Very exciting, I recommend it.
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January 18
It offers a good experience. The ticket price is expensive.
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February 12, 2024
Boring and expensive (like most in Istanbul) museum. The ticket is sold together with the ticket to the Church of St. Sofia.
It's not worth the money — ten rooms with screens showing neutral animations of Sofia and her brief history.
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November 7, 2024
It's worth going 100 %
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July 24, 2024
A gorgeous exposition and a story told, interesting to visit.
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September 22, 2024
It costs neither money nor time
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January 12
Unusual)
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December 21, 2024
Awesome
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January 30
Super
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