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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 322 art galleries
Best art galleries in Istanbul
The 10 most notable art galleries in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Labirent Sanat
Tepebaşı Cd. No:56 Kat:2
330 m from Şişhane, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.247, percentile 100 of 322
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2
İş Sanat Kibele Sanat Galerisi
Büyükdere Cad, Meltem Sk. No: 4
527 m from 4. Levent, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.242, percentile 99.69 of 322
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3
Seven Sanat Galerisi
Moda Cd. 42/A
340 m from Kadıköy İDO, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.241, percentile 99.38 of 322
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4
Macka Art Gallery
Mim Kemal Öke Cd. 31/A
561 m from Taşkışla, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.233, percentile 99.07 of 322
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5
Meşher
İstiklal Cd. No: 211
197 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.233, percentile 98.75 of 322
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Zilberman Gallery
İstiklal Cad. Mısır Apartmanı No.163 K.3 D.10
136 m from Tünel, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.231, percentile 98.44 of 322
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Maji Art Gallery
Sinoplu Şht. Cemal Sk. 4/B
784 m from Osmanbey, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.230, percentile 98.13 of 322
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8
Piramid Sanat
Feridiye Cd. No:23/25
258 m from Taksim Transfer Center, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.227, percentile 97.82 of 322
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9
Ekavart Gallery
Gümüşsuyu, Asker Ocağı Cad. Süzer Plaza No:15
380 m from Taşkışla, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.227, percentile 97.51 of 322
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10
Kıraçtı Sanat Galerisi
Velet Çelebi Sk. No:10
663 m from Emniyet—Fatih, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.224, percentile 97.2 of 322
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).