WELCOME RECEPTION / GALA DINNER

İSTANBUL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ( WELCOME RECEPTION - 13th of November, 2008)

    Located beside the Bosphorus, İstanbul Museum of Modern Art, the first private museum devoted to modern and contemporary art in Turkey, was founded in 2004 in order to promote wider enjoyment and understanding of modern art among the public. İstanbul Modern aims at introducing, maintaining, evaluating the accumulation of our country in the field of modern and contemporary art, our creativity, dynamism, the universal values and contemporary cultural identity that we possess. In accordance with this objective, we make common cause to enable our museum to become an institution that trains, endears the art,  determines the agenda of art and reaches the members of the society by its dynamic environment.
    At the shop of İstanbul Museum of Modern Art, which brings art and design together with a variety of products, a wide collection awaits you with select art books,  specially designed home accessories, and gifts which will help you remember the exhibits you have visited for years to come.
    With magnificent views of the Bosphorus and the historic district of Istanbul, the İstanbul Modern Restaurant / Cafe  invites  you  to  its  lively,  elegantly  designed  interior  to  enjoy  a  relaxing  meal selected  from their cosmopolitan menu for your Welcome Reception on the 13th of November, 2008. Its wide terrace provides a perfect  setting  to  enjoy  an  elegant  meal  to  the  accompaniment  of  the  view and  cooling  breezes of  the Bosphorous.

FERİYE RESTAURANT (GALA DINNER - 14th of November, 2008)

    Feriye Restaurant, at which Gala Dinner will be given on the 14th of November, 2008 ,a former police station in the 19th century, is an intimate venue combined with refined elegance and extraordinarily attentive, gracious service with a heavenly bosphorus view and fancy ambiance proposes Turkish and Ottoman menus beyond example. The Ottoman Sultans literally started the history of Feriye, moving in the 19th Century from Topkapı Palace to their new magnificent palaces in the Bosphorus. Feriye Restaurant is in Istanbul which straddles two continents (Europe and Asia) , making it a true meeting place of the East and the West. Without a shadow of doubt, Turkey has a rich history and diverse culture stemming from various elements of the Ottoman, European and Islamic traditions.