![]() ![]() If you have a copy of the book, make sure you bring it with you for free entrance. ![]() Everything in the museum’s four floors references the novel and the era in which the story was set. Pamuk opened the museum in 2012, however he had developed the idea for the museum and novel in parallel. The Museums collection could well have been. The museum displays the artifacts of their love story, presenting what the novel’s characters “used, wore, heard, saw, collected and dreamed of, all meticulously arranged in boxes and display cabinets.” The collection, which includes more than a thousand objects, is housed in a 19th-century house on the corner of Çukurcuma Sokak and Dalgıç Sokak. Kemal, the main character of the book, lived in this house. The novel culminates in Kemals hiring of Orhan Pamuk to carry out the museum project that is to commemorate Fsun. In the novel we follow Kemal’s obsession and love for Füsun through the objects he collects that are reminders of her a used cigarette, a hair pin, a tea cup. The Museum of Innocence is the most recent novel by Pamuk, Turkish novelist and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature (its Turkish title is Masumiyet Müzesi, 2008) 1. ![]() Despite Kemal’s engagement to another woman, the characters fall in love with one another and carry a relationship until Füsun disappears and leaves Kemal puzzled, only to be rejoined after several years. ![]() Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence (2008) tells an intense love story between a wealthy businessman Kemal and his poorer cousin Füsun. ![]()
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