Museum of Innocence
I have visited this museum and it is a materialization on how objects can tell the stories of the characters of the novel under the same name. You walk around the museum wearing a headset that has the narrator telling you the story of every object, or the story of the character that was related to the object. It is curated in an old house in a neighborhood on the European side of Istanbul. It takes around 3 to 4 hours to finish the museum if you have patient because the writer Orhan Pamuk was meticulous in adding all the little and big objects that were mentioned in the novel.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-museum-of-innocence-2-istanbul-turkey
“Inside the museum are objects which evoke stories and memories of the Istanbul of the 1970s. Some objects, such as Füsun’s dress or driver’s license or the view from her room, are taken directly from the novel. Objects are displayed in cases corresponding to chapters in the novel. On the ground floor of the museum is a large spiral, representing the Aristotelian conception of time as the line which links the series of unbreakable, atomic moments of the “present,”—the concept from which objects of the museum link the moments of the novel to the characters living out its arc.
In creating the Museum of Innocence, Pamuk was driven by the sentiment that “museums should explore and uncover the universe and humanity of the new and modern man emerging from increasingly wealthy non-Western nations.” Pamuk’s catalogue of the Museum of Innocence, The Innocence of Objects, includes a “modest manifesto for museums.” This manifesto suggests guidelines from which the actual museum could be understood and experienced.
Contributed by WesamHassan on 20/01/2020
