Museum of Innocence

“I didn’t know it was the happiest moment of my life.”
Our Nobel Prize-winning great author Orhan Pamuk’s wonderful love novel begins with these words…
The story of Kemal, a rich kid from Istanbul, and his distant and poor relative Füsun, starting on a spring day in 1975 and continuing to the present day: With its speed, action, richness of events and characters, sense of humor and power to make you feel the storms in the depths of the human soul, The Museum of Innocence will be one of those books that you won’t be able to put down and will read again.
While reading The Museum of Innocence, you will see that not only your thoughts about love but also marriage, friendship, sexuality, passion, family and happiness will be 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. “The most powerful, most beautiful, most humane and most moving work of contemporary art in the world,” wrote renowned art historian Simon Schama in the Financial Times, describing the museum, which has been visited by tens of thousands of visitors to date. “It is at once poetry and dark humor; elegant and full of compassion, and box by box, showcase by showcase, aesthetically magnificent.”