One of Bursa’s most beautiful museums, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum is located in the Green Complex of the Green Madrasah, which was built by the Ottoman Emperor Çelebi Mehmet in 1419. Green Madrasa was used as the Bursa Archeological Museum between 1930 and 1972. It has been serving as a Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum since 1975.
In the museum; Manuscript books, which were written the period between the 12th century and 20th centuries, Islamic epitaphs, Islamic coins, shields, weapons, manipulations, gravestones and many materials that reflect the Ottoman and Seljuk period are found in the period. In Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, regional bathhouse items of Bursa, items of Bursa dervish lodge and Islamic monastery, arts of calligraphy, Ottoman aiming medals, kitchen and coffee items, examples of calligraphy of Hafiz Osman and Sheikh Hamdullah, and shadow puppetry items of Karagöz-Hacivat are also exhibited.
There are also the Quran bound with the gazelle skin which is given as a gift to Yıldırım Bayezid by the Mamluk Sultana, A Koran of 1323, the richly decorated Sufi Bakaras of the 14th century, the Quran of Sultan Murad 2, a prayer book written in 975, and tile plates belonging to the 15th century in the category of safe deposit of the museum. Gravestones, which are found in different regions of Bursa including the period between the 15th century and 19th century, are exhibited in the garden of the museum.