This album contains all our galleries which are not for our talks
Museum of Industrial Archaeology
The Museum is part of the Koç Foundation. The horn logo is a play on the family name which translates as 'ram'.
This is what ed us to the museum: the 52 bus we saw from the road. It is an older style Routemaster bus. The current route of the 52 bus in London is slightly different from that shown.
Telephone box and post box of George V era
A sitting area next to the 'shops' with a seated bronze figure
Tableau of a pharmacy
Tableau of the clockmaker in his shop
At the toy shop
Tableau of a Ship's Chandler
Tableau of boatbuilders
Tableau of a fisherman with his boat and accessories
Tableau of Sultan Abdul Aziz in his royal train
Museums have an educational role. Here the test is to join all the marked cities without running out of string. We succeeded.
It is possible to visit the submarine moored alongside in the Golden Horn
An artistic view of a ship's propeller
Fish art made from vehicle springs and cogs
Selective view of a boneshaker bicycle
Made in Doncaster. It is, but shouldn't be, surprising how much of the medium and heavy engineering of the 19th century was made in Britain.
Steam winch, made in Britain
The Hasköy - Sütlüce narrow gauge railway runs at weekends. Free tickets from the office.
Trams of this design continue to run up and down Istiklal Avenue between Tünel and Taksim Square. There is another nostalgic tram line in Moda on the Asian side.