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Türkiye
İş
Bankası
museum,
located
in
Sirkeci,
was
first
established
as
a
post
office
building
in
1892,
but
when
the
post
office
building
was
moved
to
the
current
Grand
Post
Office
building
in
Sirkeci,
it
was
used
as
a
branch
of
İş
Bankası
until
2004.
In
2005,
it
was
decided
to
turn
the
building
into
a
museum,
and
it
opened
its
doors
as
Türkiye
İş
Bankası
Museum
in
2007.
The
museum,
which
hosts
artifacts
and
furniture
related
to
the
100-year
history
of
banking,
has
become
one
of
the
most
popular
buildings
in
Istanbul.
Copying
machines
(such
as
photocopiers),
money
counting
machines,
typewriters,
current
calculators,
kerosene
lamps,
guard
clocks,
telephones
and
telephone
books,
calculators
from
various
periods,
cold
stamps,
seals,
tape
recorders
collected
from
İş
Bank
branches
all
over
Turkey.
,
scales,
personnel
books,
notebooks
distributed
by
the
bank
to
its
customers,
key
chains,
pens,
pens,
matchboxes,
piggy
banks,
various
plaques
won
by
the
bank,
certificates
of
appreciation,
honor
books
and
trophies
are
among
the
most
important
works
exhibited
in
the
museum.
In
addition,
the
museum's
painting
collection,
which
exhibits
paintings
by
famous
painters
such
as
Osman
Hamdi,
Şeker
Ahmet
Pasha,
İbrahim
Çallı,
Fahrelnisa
Zeid,
Abidin
Dino,
and
personnel
and
branch
photographs
also
constitute
an
important
part
of
the
museum.
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