Sabanc University Sakp Sabanc Museum

Sabanc University Sakp Sabanc Museum is located in Emirgan, one of the oldest settlements of the Bosphorus, in Istanbul. The villa, which is the main building of the museum, was built in 1925 by the Egyptian Khedive Prince Mehmed Ali Hasan by the Italian architect Edoardo De Nari and was used as a summer residence for many years by various members of the Khedive family. The mansion, which was purchased from the Hidiv family by the industrialist Hac Omer Sabanc from Adana in 1951, became known as the Equestrian Mansion due to the 1864 horse sculpture of the French sculptor Louis Doumas, which was purchased and installed in front of it the same year. The second horse statue in the land of the Atl Kosk is the cast of one of the four horses taken from Istanbul Sultanahmet square, which was looted by the Crusaders during the 4th Crusade in 1204, and placed in front of the Venetian San Marco church. After the death of Hac Omer Sabanc in 1966, the Atl Kosk, which was used as a permanent...