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Photography museum in Istanbul, Turkey

Ara Güler Museum
Ara Güler Müzesi
Location within Istanbul
Established	16 August 2018; 6 years ago (2018-08-16)
Location	Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey
Coordinates	41°03′29″N 28°58′51″E / 41.05819°N 28.98075°E / 41.05819; 28.98075
Type	Photography museum

Ara Güler Museum (Turkish: Ara Güler Müzesi) is a photography museum in Istanbul, Turkey, exhibiting photographs taken by the photojournalist Ara Güler. Established in 2018, the museum also houses an archive of his work.

Ara Güler (16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was a noted Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".

Ara Güler Museum opened on 16 August 2018, on Güler's 90th birthday, and is located at Bomontiada in Şişli district of Istanbul, Turkey. The museum's foundation goes back to the collaboration of Doğuş Group with Ara Güler in 2016. The opening exhibition featured under the title "The Whistling Man" ("Islık Çalan Adam"). Güler's photographs focus on humans, Istanbul, and Turkey in the second half of the 20th century which shaped the individual and social memory of this location.

The museum houses also an archive and research center ("Ara Güler Arşiv ve Araştırma Merkezi", AGAVAM). An archive team led by an art consultant at Doğuş Group carried out a two-year project on the classification, inventory, preservation, digitization and indexing of hundreds of thousands of Ara Güler's works. The archive collections are available to photography enthusiasts and researchers through a portal.

Admission to the museum is free of charge.

References

"In pictures: 'Eye of Istanbul' photographer Ara Guler dies at 90". BBC. 18 October 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
"Ara Güler Müzesi açıldı!" (in Turkish). pab. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
^ "Ara Güler Müzesi Açıldı" (in Turkish). Mimarizm. 17 August 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2022. |

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