As Nobel Prize-winning Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk realized a long-nurtured dream on April 28 with the opening of an actual “Museum of Innocence” – a collection of relics of a half-century of ordinary life – as depicted in his 2008 novel of the same name, the museum has attracted great interest around the world.
The museum has drawn interest on every continent as it is the first example of its kind. A press conference held in Istanbul in April hosted many journalists from Cuba, Israel, Spain and Korea. Media from different parts of the world has raised interest in every country.
Pamuk set out “not to do a spectacular or monumental museum but something in the backstreets, something that represents the daily life of the city,” he said during the April press conference.
More than 100 journalists from around the world attended the opening of the museum. Even though two months have passed, reviews of the museum and articles about it are still raising interest in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the U.S. Television channels, journals, magazines and dailies are still visiting the museum, according to a written statement from the museum’s PR agency.
