Turkey museum ticket prices 2026

Topkapı Palace costs ₺2,750 for foreign visitors and ₺500 for Turkish citizens. It is one combined ticket for Topkapı, Hagia Irene and the Harem, valid for one day, and children aged 6 and under enter free. The palace is closed on Tuesdays. Dolmabahçe Palace costs ₺2,000 for foreign visitors and ₺250 for citizens (Selamlık, Harem and Painting Museum together), and is closed on Mondays. Both belong to the National Palaces administration, not to the ministry’s DOSIM list, so they keep their own tariff and closing days. Prices checked 1 Oct 2026.

The pass costs €105 and lasts 5 days from the first entry, with one entry per site. The platform lists 10 sites on it. It pays off when the tickets you would otherwise buy add up to more than the pass: the 3 dearest covered sites together cost at least as much as the pass. So it suits a packed, museum-heavy stay and not one or two highlights. Put your own sites and days into the planner above for the exact comparison, including the sites the pass does not cover. It is not valid at night museums.

The Türkiye pass costs €165 for 15 days and lists 334 sites, so it is built for a route that crosses regions. The regional passes are cheaper and cover one area: Aegean €95 (7 days), Mediterranean €90 (7 days), Cappadocia €65 (3 days) and Istanbul €105 (5 days). Which one wins depends on the sites you pick, not on the headline price; a regional pass that covers most of your list usually beats the Türkiye pass. Add your route to the planner and it compares all five against single tickets.

At the ministry’s sites, Turkish citizens under 18 and aged 65 and over enter free, and so do foreign children aged 8 and under. Disabled visitors with one companion, veterans and martyrs’ relatives, press, ICOM, ICOMOS and UNESCO card holders, and a list of officials also have free entry; the directive names the document each needs. The sites sold apart allow far fewer of these rights, and only children under 8 are free there. The National Palaces (Topkapı, Dolmabahçe) set their own rules: in our data children up to 6 are free. The planner applies the age rules; see the section “Who pays what” for the rest.

Not at the ticket window. The ministry directive allows no reduced tariff beyond the cases it lists, so an ordinary student card does not lower the price at its sites. Two things do exist. Students over 18, foreign students in Türkiye and TRNC students can get an İndirimli MüzeKart. The İndirimli MüzeKart costs ₺100. And students of art history, archaeology, conservation, Hittitology, Sumerology, anthropology and museology at a university in Türkiye enter the ministry’s sites free with their student document. The planner has a setting for that last case.

The Museum Pass is a foreign-visitor product, and the directive says a ticket sold at a foreign-currency tariff cannot be sold to a Turkish citizen. Citizens use the MüzeKart, which gives two entries per museum a year at the ministry’s sites. A foreigner with a Turkish ID number starting 99 or 98 can buy the Müzekart’99 instead. The list has no separate tariff for foreign residents, so this page prices them as visitors; the planner offers the passes to them only as an estimate. The full MüzeKart costs ₺200. The Müzekart’99 costs ₺750. These amounts are from the directive’s current tariff table; an older annex on the DOSIM site lists other amounts.

Each pass gives one entry per site, and its days count from the first entry: 5 for Istanbul, 15 for Türkiye, and 7, 7 and 3 for the other three. The platform data lists no blackout dates. It does list an entry cut-off of 19:00, and a few places stop earlier, so check each site’s hours. The pass is not valid at night museums or at the sites the ministry sells apart, and the Mediterranean and Aegean passes cover Hierapolis but not the Ancient Pool inside it. A second visit to the same site needs a new ticket.

Foreign visitors see the tariff in euros, but the directive has the gate collect it in lira, converted at the Central Bank’s effective selling rate of the previous day. So the lira amount moves with the rate from day to day. On 30 Sept 2026 one euro was 55.61 lira, which is the rate this page uses for its estimates. The Museum Pass is priced in euros too: €105 for Istanbul is about ₺5,839.08 at that rate. Turkish citizens pay lira tariffs directly, and they do not move with the exchange rate.

Hagia Sophia is three different things in the data. The visitor gallery costs €25 from age 8, and younger children are free. The separate Hagia Sophia History and Experience Museum costs €25. The ticket for one does not include the other, and neither is the mosque’s prayer floor. The operator notes an entry window for portal tickets and a Friday closure, so check its page before you go. Domestic card rules and agency tariffs for these two are not in our data, so MüzeKart holders should check the operator.

The newest price in the data was checked 1 October 2026, and each price keeps its own date in the downloads. The page reads the platform on request, with at most an hour of caching, and adds no figure of its own. Ministries change tariffs from time to time, and the lira figure of a euro ticket moves daily, so treat the totals as estimates and confirm at the gate. If something here disagrees with an official page, tell us and we will check it.