![]() ![]() ![]() Pamuk’s manifesto, however, is not a treatise on museum buildings, which has been an obsession for starchitects and their patrons. ![]() The curved door, designed by Richard Meier, is so substantial that opening it requires the assistance of a machine to slide it along its curving track. While I haven’t done a systematic survey of the size of museum doors around the world, it’s difficult to imagine any museum having wider doors than the Getty’s magnificent sliding glass portal through which visitors pass on their way out of the Entrance Hall toward the museum’s pavilions. This is why millions outside the Western world are afraid of going to museums.” “Big museums with their wide doors call upon us to forget our humanity and embrace the state and its human masses. Point number six of Pamuk’s 11-point manifesto hit close to home: Rather, ever since I discovered that the influential author had written a Modest Manifesto for Museums to accompany his novel and museum, both called The Museum of Innocence, he has constantly been on my mind. I first became engaged with the work of Orhan Pamuk not through one of his acclaimed novels such as Snow or My Name is Red, or even when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006. Photo: Innocence Foundation and Refik Anadol, Orhan Pamuk at his Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, standing amid the numbered vitrines. ![]()
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