In a chapter titled “The Museum of Innocence,” for instance, in the space of a page, Kemal extols Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, the Museu Frederic Marès in Barcelona (celebrated in a previous post), and the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California - all firm favorites of this blog and institutions where the historical and poetical spirit of the cabinet of curiosities still thrives. In Pamuk’s novel The Museum of Innocence (2008), the lovelorn narrator, Kemal, constructs a museum of objects and images connected to the woman he obsessively adores, Füsun, an idea inspired by his restless worldwide travels to hundreds of museums strange and obscure. I might have made it the subject of an entire post if I had been able to take photographs inside.
"Pamuk’s museum, which opened on April 28, is an extraordinary venture. (At present, it’s only available in Turkish an English translation, The Innocence of Objects, will follow in October.) Next day, in Istanbul’s Book Bazaar, I chanced upon the illustrated catalogue Pamuk has produced for his museum. It sounded marvelous and I would have gone there at once if I had known the address. "After my lecture, as I was about to set out in search of The Works, a French student approached me to mention a nearby museum called The Museum of Innocence, founded by the Turkish novelist and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.
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