Museum of innocence opened in Istanbul Automatic translate

Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Prize winner in literature, opened the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul on April 28, 2012, a project related to his novel, which “is a small encyclopedia of love.”

Pamuk explained at a press briefing held after the opening of the building that he was convinced that the literature should be illustrated and enable readers to experience several dimensions of the literary work using an example of a similar exposition.

The museum, which opens on Saturday, stores a collection of household items and utensils of the second half of the twentieth century, and the exposition itself is divided into 83 zones, which corresponds to 83 chapters of the novel “Museum of Innocence”, published in 2008. Here you can see brushes, watches, salt, keys, spoons, cologne bottles, movie tickets and thousands of other objects that illustrate the environment in a lower-middle-class family in this city in the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, which are described in the novel.

There are also maps of old Istanbul, which allows you to identify certain areas where events with the main characters take place. Black and white photographs, Turkish dishes, tea cups and dishes for crayfish (aniseed Turkish national alcoholic drink). “You do not have to read the Book to enjoy the museum,” says Pamuk, and adds that this project was conceived ten years before the publication of the book.

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