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The 10-th edition of the Night Of The Museums and Galleries will take place in Plovdiv, on September 12-13.

The festival will include more than 120 events, with more than 500 participants from all over the world, at over 90 locations in the city, which recently was chosen European Capital of Culture 2019.

The number of private museums in Turkey has exceeded the number of state museums for the first time.

According to information provided by the Cultural Heritages and Museums General Directorate, there are 192 museums affiliated with the Culture and Tourism Ministry, while the number of private museums has risen to 193.

Culture Ministry figures indicate a significant increase in visitors to some of the country’s 38 most important archaeological sites and museums in the second quarter of this year, an improvement that officials attribute to the extension of opening hours.

Turkey’s first “interactive” nature museum is set to be opened in the southern province of
Antalya, with plants and animals unique to the region introducing to visitors in their own “technologically-enhanced” environment.

The museum will be located in the Termessos National Park with the support of the Mediterranean Development Agency.

Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations is hosting a new exhibition in which everyday objects, inspired by Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, are plucked from the intimate space of the museum and put back in Istanbul’s public space “The handkerchief in box 9 is Füsun’s white childhood handkerchief with embroidery on the corner.” Füsun,

Do we conserve old artefacts because of their esthetic beauty or because they constitute historical documents?

According to Dr. Murat Katoğlu…

The priority of museums to gather different works out of the hands of humans is their characteristic as a permanent example of creativity and their esthetic value.

Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry has initiated a new project to revive the fortunes of the country’s museums and ancient sites by seeking to emulate some of the world’s leading cultural spaces.

The legacy of late Turkish tile master Sıtkı Olçar, who was selected as a living human treasure by UNESCO and died in 2010, aged 62, survives at a museum that has recently opened. Located in the village of Sofa at the 35th kilometer of Kütahya-Eskişehir highway, the museum displays his tools used in fishing and his tiles.

Archeology is a branch of science that researches, documents and tries to interpret, based on material findings, the cultural and social orders of human communities that lived in the past. Ancient artifacts are preserved not because of their aesthetic beauties, but because they are historic documents.   

By Iota Sykka