The city’s painting and sculpture museum is located on the roof of the main campus of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSU) in Fındıklı. One of the leading cultural establishments of Istanbul with a collection of Late Ottoman to late 20th-century art, the museum is also noteworthy as Turkey’s first western museum of arts.  

MSGSU Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture building is one of the top destinations in the Karaköy area, and is designed by Emre Arolat Architects, an architectural office whose work has been recognized with several prestigious accolades to date, including the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.