Baks? Museum prepares for new tourism season

The Baks? Museum, which was founded in 2010 at a location 45 kilometers away from the southeastern province of Bayburt?s Baks? village and brings together contemporary art and traditional handicrafts under the same roof, is preparing for the new tourism season. 

The museum was awarded with the Council of Europe Museum Prize in 2014 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe?s (PACE) Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media.

The founder of the museum and the Baks? Culture and Arts Foundation, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, said the foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. 

He said an international museum congress would be held in the museum between July 23 and 26 with the title ?Regional Museums as Generators of Development.?

He said 22 representatives of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) would join the congress, adding, ?This means that European and Asian museums? representatives and museum organizations will visit Bayburt and Baks?. It is a very important event to us. The projects here will be reconsidered with an international point of view.?

Koçan said the congress would be held in Turkey for the first time. ?The popularity brought by the European Council Award that the Baks? Museum received in 2014 is the reason for this,? he added. 

He also noted a new exhibition would open in the museum for the 10th anniversary of the foundation. 

?Our German curator friend is organizing an exhibition with the headline of ?10.? He displays traditional and contemporary pieces together in the museum. For example, a Bayburt kilim will be displayed with the work of a well-known contemporary artist beside it. He creates such couples. This is very exciting for us. We will open...