Somerset House hosted the Turkish, Nobel prize recipient Orhan Pamuk.
Museum of Innocence, which is named after the novel attracted a lot of attention during the past four month of its execution. The museum has grown simultaneously with the novel of the same name, features an array of everyday items – from wedding invitations and newspaper cuttings, to tin spoons and salt shakers – that chronicle the couple’s ill-fated romance, while also telling the story of the two families, and the city of Istanbul itself.
As Pamuk puts it the museum is a desire to show what is special about “the ordinary” and to help people to see things differently. Annually, around 30,000 people visit his museum, mostly foreigners. The majority have not read the book, he adds, although the two are organically linked.
Orhan Pamuk expressed her excitement during a speech: “This new touring exhibition will tell a different version of the love story set in Istanbul through objects and Grant Gee’s wonderful new film. I’m delighted that The Museum of Innocence has been given a new life out in the wider world at Somerset House.”
The last day of the exhibition is on 3rd of 2016, all those, who are interested should better be quick.
