As the novel's protagonist belonged to two different social statuses, the Museum represents various both.
These also represent, in general, the life of Istanbul in those days. Each exhibition showcases the different novel's characters used, wore, heard, saw, collected, and even dreamed of, all painstakingly arranged in boxes and display cabinets. The exhibits are displayed on four of the five floors. The Museum of innocence is divided into floors. Every installation in the Museum narrates a story that reconnects the past and present. The timber house with its vitrines has been idealized to retell the love affair in the most authentic way possible. The Museum's building is a reserved 19th century Timber house. According to the Museum's website, these reminiscents constitute the collections of the Museum. He used to take something from the place during every visit to remain with him as a memory. After Fusun marries someone else, Kemal used to visit the same place for eight years. That is where the whole architecture of the Museum is inspired from. They used to meet in a dusty room with old furniture. Things got complicated from here on or rather dreamy. According to Kemal's narrative, marrying Sibel, a girl closer to his social status, falls in love with his distant cousin Fusun. Although both of them are distant cousins, there is not much common between them.
The hero Kemal is from a typical upper-class Istanbul family, and his loved Fusun is from a relatively middle-class family. The Museum of Innocence is centered around the story of two classical love birds. It is said that Pamuk had been collecting these pieces since the 1990s when he first came by the idea of writing a novel penned under the same name. The painstaking attention to detail can keep every visitor enthralled and mesmerized in the concept. The art pieces are arranged in the order discussed in the novel.
Pamuk always had this plan of building up a museum consisting of pieces that have associated memories and meanings from the era explained in the novel from the beginning. The novel was published in 2008, and the Museum was opened to the public in 2012. The foundation of the Museum is laid upon a novel by Orhan Pamuk. It is both a showcase of love, fiction, and the representation of the actual life of Istanbul in the second half of the 20th century. The Museum of Innocence is the realization of an author's word. Updated Date : Museum of Innocence, Istanbul
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