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The Museum of Innocence is a museum conceived in parallel with Orhan Pamuk’s novel of the same name and assembled from his personal collection. Designed both as a literary text and a physical space, The Museum of Innocence narrates Istanbul’s social and cultural life between 1950 and 2000 through everyday objects. The novel was published in 2008, and the museum opened on 28 April 2012 in the Brukner Apartment in Istanbul’s Çukurcuma district. Establishment Process Pamuk developed the ideas for t

Orhan Pamuk's "Museum of Innocence", love, passion, obsession and social change form the axis of an compelling novel. Author weaves together individual and collective memory in this work to offer the reader a deeply layered narrative. Roman tells the story of a love affair between Kemal Basmacı, the son of a wealthy family, and Füsun, his distant relative from a lower class, set in 1970s Istanbul. Although engaged to someone else, Kemal falls in love with the young and beautiful Füsun. However,