Hagia Sophia History & Experience Museum Free w E-pass
A multimedia museum beside Hagia Sophia telling the building's 1,500-year story — cathedral, mosque, museum, mosque again — using projection, reconstruction and artefacts.
- At the gate
- £21.25
- Allow
- 1h 30m
- District
- Sultanahmet
- Closed
- Open daily
The Hagia Sophia History and Experience Museum, in short
A multimedia museum beside Hagia Sophia telling the building's 1,500-year story u2014 cathedral, mosque, museum, mosque again u2014 using projection, reconstruction and artefacts.
It is not the building itself. It is the explanation of it, and it fills gaps that a walk through the mosque cannot.
What it costs
Walk-up entry is u20ac25. Included on the pass.
Getting there
In Sultanahmet, immediately beside Hagia Sophia. T1 tram to Sultanahmet.
How long to allow
An hour. Do it before you visit Hagia Sophia rather than after u2014 you will get considerably more out of the building itself.
What is inside
Byzantine mosaic fragments, Ottoman calligraphy, architectural models, and immersive projections reconstructing the interior at different points in its history u2014 including the decoration lost to the iconoclasts and to successive earthquakes.
Frequently asked questions
- No. It is a separate multimedia museum beside it, telling the building's history.
- Before. You will read the building far better with the context already in place.
- u20ac25 at the door, and included on the pass.
- About an hour.