A newly opened painting museum on the shores of Istanbul’s breathtaking Bosphorus is home to an Ottoman palace painting collection that continues to draw visitors despite the pandemic. The National Palaces Painting Museum in Istanbul’s teeming Besiktas district was reopened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this January following a multi-year restoration project. The museum first opened in 2014 in the Dolmabahce Palace’s Veliahd Residence, the living quarters of heirs to ...