Baksı Museum

Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in the Central Asia.

History

The museum was the idea of the painter and academic Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, who decided to build a museum in his hometown in the Black Sea region of Bayburt. The museum was opened in July, 2010, after taking approximately 20 years of preparation. Professor Hüsamettin Koçan said, “I didn’t do this for my own village, I did it for the people who live in my village and everywhere.”

Facilities

The Baksı Museum is a large group of buildings that offers workshops and exhibitions in Turkey’s Black Sea province of Bayburt. It has 500,000 square meters of exhibit halls, a conference hall for hosting panel discussions and shows, workshops aimed at the recovery of disappearing crafts where contemporary artists can create pieces and the public can benefit, library bearing 10,000 art publications and books on folklore, and a guesthouse with capacity for 30 people. Built 45 kilometers from central Bayburt, on a hilltop overlooking the Çoruh Valley, the Baksı Museum brings modern art and traditional crafts under the same roof. The museum hosts a wide collection of folk art paintings, individual examples reflecting the local craftwork and contemporary art.

References

• www.hurriyetdailynews.com "Black Sea museum combines Turkish crafts, contemporary art" July 14, 2010
• www.baksi.org Official site

See also

Bayburt

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