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In Stara Čaršija, between the Murat-Pasha mosque and the Suli caravanserai, this former hammam (Чифте Амам/Čifte Amam, Çifte Hamami) is covered by two domes and twelve cupolas. It houses temporary exhibitions from the National Gallery. Built around 1450 under the aegis of Ottoman governor Isa-Bey Ishaković, it owes its name to the Turkish term çift, meaning "double": it had one area for women (to the southwest) and another for men (to the northeast). In operation until 1917, it also housed a section reserved for Jewish residents (to the northwest).

Surrounded by stores, this caravanserai in Stara Čaršija (Сули Ан/Suli An, Hani i Sulit) is hardly visible from the outside. Located just north of the hammam Čifte (another entrance to the east via Bitpazarska Street), it was established around 1460 by Governor Isa-Bey Ishaković. Its name comes from the Turkish word sulu, meaning a damp place. The building stands above the Serava River, which was covered over during the Ottoman period. Restored after the 1963 earthquake, it looks like a classic caravanserai: a courtyard used to store goods and 57 rooms for merchants on two levels. Since 1982, the first floor has housed part of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Saints Cyril and Methodius University, with an exhibition. The first floor is occupied by the Stara Čaršija Museum (Музеј на Старата Скопска Чаршија/Muzej na Starata Skopska Čaršija, Muzeu i Çarshisë së Vjetër të Shkupit). Established in 1983, it is part of the Skopje City Museum. Covering 350^m2, it includes an archaeology section displaying objects dating from the ^10th to the ^20th century, found in the charchia and the fortress. The ethnology section focuses on the ancient crafts of the charchia: goldsmiths, tinsmiths, coppersmiths and leatherworkers. An opportunity to discover old tools and beautiful pieces of hammered copper. The museum also includes a history section (plans and documents) and an art gallery (paintings by ^20th-century local artists).

This private art gallery (Галерија Остен) hosts frequent exhibitions of great artists: Dalí, Vasarely, Picasso, Rembrandt... The director, the artist Mice Jankulovski (born 1954), is indeed a collector who owns, among others, several paintings and sculptures by Vasarely. Founded in 1945 by the satirical partisan newspaper Osten, the gallery organizes the World Gallery of Cartoons prize (press cartoons) and the Drawing Biennial with an exhibition of the participating artists in February, at the National Gallery, at the hammam Čifte, on the eastern bank.