Also the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, which I wrote about in the novel – Kamal visits it.
The Johnson museum in London influenced me. The most interesting part of my inspiration were other museums and texts about them. Was your museum inspired by philosophers such as Adorno and Benjamin in its focus on everyday life? “Monumental museums “do not bring out our humanity,” he claims “on the contrary, they quash it.” He has expressed his ideas on the role of such small museums in a “ modest manifesto.” Pamuk argues that museums should be like novels: they should tell “everyday stories of individuals,” which are “richer, more humane, and much more joyful” than epic historical narratives. Unlike large-scale museums that narrate national histories, Pamuk’s museum focuses on individual lives and everyday experience. In some cases, objects are reconstructions, such as cigarettes, which would naturally decay. The text is based around objects collected by Pamuk and subsequently displayed in the real museum, which is presented as that made by Kemal and whose exhibits follow the chronology of the novel.
The novel’s protagonist, Kemal, constructs a museum to honour his love, Füsun. Pamuk opened the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul in 2012 as an accompaniment to his 2008 novel of the same name. The following is an abridged transcript of that discussion. He then visited the Centre Marc Bloch to lead a seminar discussion on the project. Orhan Pamuk gave the 2017 Peter Szondi-Lecture on 17 October at the Freie Universität, discussing
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