The Rahmi M. Koç Museum in Istanbul is Turkey's first major museum dedicated to transport, industry and communications. It displays thousands of items housed in magnificent industrial buildings on the shore of the Golden Horn, from gramophone needles to full-size ships and aircraft. The museum offers visitors insight into engineering and technology through its diverse collection of objects that have shaped daily life, showcasing both their functional beauty and the ingenuity of their creators.

2. The Rahmi M. Koç Museum is the first major museum in Turkey dedicated to the history of Transport, Industry and Communications. Housed in magnificent buildings - themselves prime examples of industrial archaeology - on the shore of the historic Golden Horn, the collection contains thousands of items from gramophone needles to full size ships and aircraft. The location is unrivalled - romantic, historic, convenient to both the Old City and the new. And the appeal is universal: objects that affect our daily lives, created by talented engineers and craftsmen, encapsulating man's ingenuity and hard work yet at the same time exhibiting great beauty.

6. Road Transport 1898 Malden Steam Car

7. 1917 Albion X-Ray Ambulance

8. 1908 Ford Model T

9. 1904 Delahaye Fire Engine

10. Fowler Traction Engine

11. Hunneman fire engine

16. 1870 Penny Farthing 1870 Penny Farthing

20. Rail Transport Kadiköy Moda Tram

23. Sultan's Carriage

24. Locomotive G10

25. Narrow Gauge Steam Locomotive

26. Tünel Carriage

28. Henschel Steam Locomotive

29. Marine Submarine 'TCG Uluç A li R eis'

32. Tugboat "Liman II"

41. Gipsy Major' Aero Engine Aviation

42. Aeromodelling

43. B-24 Liberator "Hadley's Harem"

50. Engineering Engineering Steam Engine From "SS Kalendar"

51. Olive Oil Factory

52. Portable Stationary Engine

53. Crossley Engine

54. Wood Saw

55. Compound Steam Engine

57. Communications Phonograph Rotary Dial Telephone

58. Thomas Edison Patent Model

59. Valve Amplifier Zoetrope

60. Scientific Instruments Wimshurst Machine

61. Grand Orrery

62. Marine Chronometer

63. Strasbourg Turret Clock

64. Models & Toys

65. Marine Steam Engine

66. Aveling & Porter Steamroller

68. Hands-on Cutaway Car

69. Bellanca Aeroplane

70. Scientific Experiments

71. Cutaway Domestic Goods

72. Music JAMES LAST ORCHESTRA Einsamer Hirte (With Georghe Zamphir) [email_address] September 2009