![]() Photo by Alya BarakatĪfter I paid the hefty 30 TL on entering and another 5 TL for the audio guide (I needed one since I hadn’t read the book, but I now suggest that those who have read it get one too), I stepped into the parallel work of fiction. The museum received “The European Museum Award” in 2014 and the rumor goes that Pamuk had practically spent all his Nobel Prize money -1.5 Million Dollars- on it, including the money he bought the three story building with, 12 years earlier. It took him four years to open it in 2012, in Beyoğlu, Istanbul. Pamuk got an idea as he was writing a novel back in 2008, that a museum would perfectly complement his storyline and the work for “The Museum of Innocence” (same name as the book) had thus started. ![]() What does that have to do with a museum, you ask? That’s coming right up! A Turkish Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Pamuk has made fame in Turkey and abroad by authoring a bunch of books that integrate fiction with the Turkish social and political scenes both new and old. ![]() You might have not heard of this museum but if you are a reader, you would probably have bumped into the name Orhan Pamuk. ![]()
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