Museum of Innocence

Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence - Orhan Pamuk “It was the happiest moment of my life - I didn't know it.” The wonderful love novel of our great Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk begins with these words... The story of Kemal, a rich boy from Istanbul, and his distant and poor relative Füsun, which begins on a spring day in 1975 and continues until today: Hızı - movement - events and the richness of its heroes - its sense of humor and its power to make you feel the storms deep within the human soul - The Museum of Innocence - will be one of the books you cannot put down and will read again and again. While reading The Museum of Innocence, you will see that all your thoughts about not only love - marriage - friendship - sexuality - passion - family and happiness are deeply affected and you will never want to leave the colorful world of the book. Four years after writing the novel - in 2012 - Pamuk opened the museum with the same name as his novel in Çukurcuma. Famous art historian Simon Schama wrote about the museum, which has been visited by tens of thousands of visitors so far, in his article in the Financial Times newspaper: "The most powerful, most beautiful, most humane and most impressive contemporary art work in the world." “At the same time, it's elegant and tender, like poetry and dark humor—and aesthetically gorgeous, boxy—glass window—window.”