ANKARA

Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced on Tuesday that a Troy-themed exhibition will be held at the Colosseum in Rome in 2026.

“Once again, we are bringing Türkiye’s unique cultural heritage to the heart of Ancient Rome, the Colosseum. Now it’s Troy’s turn,” said Ersoy on Turkish social media platform NSosyal.

Noting that the World Heritage site of Troy will meet art lovers at the Colosseum Archaeological Park in 2026, Ersoy said: “Following last year’s Gobeklitepe: The Mystery of a Sacred Place exhibition and this year’s Magna Mater exhibition, it has now been decided to organize a Troy-themed exhibition at the Colosseum.”

Ersoy said that, as a concrete outcome of bilateral talks held in Rome in September and Ankara in December, a mutual letter of intent was signed on Dec. 11, adding: “The exhibition will be prepared with works selected from the collections of Turkish and Italian museums, foremost among them the Troy Museum, and will be crowned with the Troy Opera produced by our Ministry’s State Opera and Ballet General Directorate. The Troy narrative will this time meet international audiences in Rome through the performing arts.”