Baksı Museum

Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in the Central Asia. It is located near the Black Sea. The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations" [1].

History

The museum was the idea of the painter and academic Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, who decided to build a museum in his hometown in the Black Sea region of Bayburt.[2] The museum was opened in July, 2010, after taking approximately 20 years of preparation. Professor Hüsamettin Koçan said, “I didn’t do this for my own village, I did it for the people who live in my village and everywhere.”

References

  1. ↑ "Baksı Müzesi". en.baksi.org. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  2. ↑ Sanat, Milliyet (2010-07-14). "Black Sea museum combines Turkish crafts, contemporary art". Huriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2014-03-09.

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