But he was assembling more than a collection. He was gathering objects, the sorts of everyday flotsam and jetsam that marked Istanbul in the second half of the 20th Century: salt shakers, old photographs, a quince grater. In the mid-1990s, even before Orhan Pamuk, the concept’s creator, author and curator, had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels, including 1998’s My Name Is Red and 2002’s Snow, he was embarking on a secret project. And all seep with the life and culture of Istanbul in the second half of the 20th Century. Awarded the title of European Museum of the Year in May 2014, the Museum of Innocence is a museum, based on a novel, based on a museum. The Museum of Innocence may be the most creatively daring project of Turkey’s most daring living author.
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