Santral Museum is at Bilgi University at the top of the Golden Horn. Santral was the first, and for a long time the only, power station for Istanbul.
The main control panel of the power station at Santral
Ampere gauge over the main control panel.
The main turbine hall. The equipment was a mix of German, Swiss and French, matching Ottoman trading relationships in the early 20th century. Signage is variously in german, turkish and english.
A motorised valve used to make minor adjustments to the alternators to align the supply phases
The Carpet Museum used to be in the sultan's lodge of the Blue Mosque, when it was dim and rarely visited. It is now housed in the imaret (kitchens) behind Hagia Sofia.
The ovens in the Hagia Sofia imaret. Now part of the carpet museum
There are actually relatively few carpets in the carpet museum, fewer than in the Arts & Crafts Museum.
The most useful part of the carpet museum is the information panels explaining the iconography of Turkish carpets. Here is a reference to the Çıntemani three-disc motif.