Article Club: The Museum of Innocence

Get together to discuss articles (and sometimes videos and podcasts) relevant to the GLAM sector – just like a book club but with less reading!

This month we’ll be talking about The Museum of Innocence. It’s ‘a museum, based on a novel, based on a museum, where the objects of the protagonist’s obsession come to life.’

This museum concept will inspire discussion around the purpose and potential of museums.  For example, Orhan Pamuk’s opinions about museums expressed in The New York Times article – do you agree or disagree? And from a more personal perspective: What is your first ‘museum memory’?

There is a selection of short articles about this creative idea. Dive in and join us for discussion:

• Turkey’s most creative, daring idea by Amanda Ruggeri, BBC, 24 February 2015
• The novel lives: visiting Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence by Alexandra Coghlan, The Monthly, October 2012
• Small museums by Orhan Pamuk, The New York Times, 20 March 2014
• See the Museum of Innocence in pictures, The Guardian, 27 Apr 2012

Bar snacks included, but you buy your own drinks.

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