Though when was that? Under Ataturk, maybe? Or possibly before, in the Ottoman past that lies all around but of which the book's characters can hardly ever speak.

Not dead, far from that, but the hours are small and time itself seems to be running down, as though the whole city were a memorial to its own better days. It bears the same name as one of his novels because the book and the museum were conceived and built together by Pamuk, starting from the 1990s: the objects exhibited in the museum, collected over time in thrift shops and friends' houses, are served in Pamuk to build the love story at the center of the novel.Īfter being exhibited in other European cities in recent years, a part of the Museum of Innocence has arrived in Milan: until 24 June it will be at Bagatti Valsecchi, a nineteenth-century house museum located in the Quadrilatero della moda and which is also mentioned in The museum of innocence because the protagonist visits it several times, even the day before he dies.Īddress: FiruzaÄŸa, Ã‡ukurcuma Caddesi, DalgÄ±Ã§ Ã‡k.I t's getting late in the Istanbul of Orhan Pamuk's new novel (his first since winning the 2006 Nobel prize), late in almost every sense of the word. In fact, in the novel, it is Kemal himself who asks the author, in a sort of imaginary conversation, to create a museum with all the objects collected by him in the years in which he deeply loved his sweetheart. The museum set up by Pamuk himself with the help of architects, craftsmen and various specialists is spread over three floors and collects an infinite number of objects that belonged to the beautiful Fusun and collected with obsession by her lover Kemal. Since its opening, the museum has been very successful, so much so that it is part of the tourist routes of the city of Istanbul. The Museum of Innocence is in fact the title of an exciting novel written by the pen of Orhan Pamuk and published in 2008, which tells a passionate love story between two lovers Kemal and Fusun, which in 2012 became a real museum that collects all objects related to this love story. The Museum of Innocence is a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, opened in 2012 by the Nobel Prize-winning writer for literature Orhan Pamuk.

The innocence museum