Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk’s new novel, The Museum of Innocence, is now on bookshelves. Not yet available to the public is the corresponding real-world museum he is in the midst of building, which will open next year. In Pamuk’s novel, the protagonist, Kemal, collects artifacts of his beloved, and ultimately uses them to construct a shrine to her, which he calls the Museum of Innocence. The physical Museum of Innocence will be as lovingly crafted, with 83 exhibits to mirror the 83 chapters of the novel and will consist, as Kemal’s museum did, of everyday objects that had some significance to the novel’s gestation.
