TEHRAN -- Turkey’s Topkapi Palace Museum will be hosting 10,000 years of Iran’s civilizations on November 3.

Mohammadreza Mehrandish, curator of the National Museum of Iran, met with Topkapi Museum director Ilber Ortayli at the venue of Iran’s office in Istanbul. The decision for the program was made on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of cultural agreement between Iran and Turkey, the Persian service of IRNA reported on Friday.
A collection of 150 artifacts from different historical eras preserved in the National Museum of Iran will be put on display at the Topkapi Museum for a period of three months.
In addition, almost 100 artifacts related to Persian art and culture preserved in different Turkish museums will also go on display at the show.
Several conferences on Iran’s art, culture and civilizations are also planned during the exhibit, while two Iranian artists will be exhibiting their handicrafts in the side section of the program.
The Topkapi Palace in Istanbul was the official primary residence of the Ottoman Sultans in that city for almost 400 years, from 1465 to 1853.
The palace was a setting for official state and royal occasions, and contains the most holy artifacts of the Muslim world, such as the Prophet Muhammad’s (S) cloak and sword.
After the end of the Ottoman Empire in 1921, Topkapi Palace was transformed into a museum of the imperial era by government decree on April 3, 1924. The Topkapi Palace Museum is under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The palace complex has hundreds of rooms and chambers, but only the most important are open to the public today. The palace is replete with examples of Ottoman architecture and also contains large collections of porcelain, robes, weapons, shields, armor, Ottoman miniatures, Islamic calligraphic manuscripts and murals, as well as a display of Ottoman treasure and jewelry