Hüsamettin Koçan

The Sur Cultural Road Festival, organized for the first time this year within the scope of the Turkish Cultural Road Festival events, has started in Diyarbakır.

Organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the festival will host more than 600 events with the participation of more than 2,000 artists until Oct. 16.

An exhibition, titled "Kıraçta Heykel" (Sculpture in the Barren), and projects deemed worthy of the Anatolian Awards are being presented to art lovers at Baksı Museum, which opened in 2010 in the northeastern province of Bayburt.

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It is a fact that Turkey's growing arts and culture area may become its most important soft power, according to Ali Güreli, founder and chairman of Contemporary Istanbul.

Baksı Museum - an extraordinary collection of traditional and modern artwork, located in the southeastern Bayburt Province - has won an award for a short film from the international "Museums in Short" contest.

Directed by Kadir Saraç, the film competed with 55 videos from 26 countries and drew praise from the jury.

The Baksı Museum, established in the Bayraktar village of the northeastern province of Bayburt and the recipient of the 2014 European Council Museum Award, will host an extraordinary personal exhibition in 2017 from its founder, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan. 

The Baks? Museum was founded in 2005 in a village in Bayburt, one of Turkey's most distant eastern places, by an artist and academic Professor Hüsamettin Koçan. The museum, founded literally in the middle of nowhere, was a utopia come true. 

Koçan was supported by artists who donated their work to the museum and a handful of businesspersons.

Thanks to Istanbul Modern?s implementation ?Your Thursday,? sponsored by Ülker, 235,000 people have been able to visit the museum free of charge since May 1, 2014.

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 Baks? Museum in the eastern Black Sea province of Bayburt?s Bayraktar (Baks?) village will celebrate its decennial with various events this year.

The founder of the museum, Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, said the most important feature of Baks? Museum was that it did not have limits.

The Heritage 2015 "Restoration, Archeology and Museum Technologies" fair and conferences opened yesterday at the Lütfi K?rdar Congress and Exhibition Hall. Being organized for the first time in Turkey, the fair's theme is "New Perspectives, New Technologies, New Applications."