The collection, containing the works of the significant artists of Turkish Painting, such as Osman Hamdi Bey, Halil Pasa, Abdülmecid Efendi and Izzet Ziya, Fikret Muallâ will be exhibited permanently in the gallery designed exclusively for the exhibition. The exhibition, which has been carried out under the scientific consultancy of by Prof.Dr. semra Germaner and Assoc. Prof. Ahu Antmen, will give the visitors a chance to oversee the historical journey of Turkish Painting. The collection, created by additions to Sakip Sabanci's private collection in time, presents a wide spectrum to Turkish Painting art from a collector's standpoint on the modernization process from the Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. The paintings, that Sakip Sabanci gathered through his personal interest for a certain era of Turkish Painting, gives a hint about the initial phase of the development process of the art of painting in Turkey. The exhibition also reveals the transition in the production of images and the alteration of the concepts of art and artist in Turkey.