Baksı Museum In Bayburt, Which Impressed People, Art and Society...

Baksı Museum, which was opened in 2010 by Hüsamettin Koçan in Bayburt in order to give life to a cultural environment that was fragmented due to intense migration and received the 2014 European Council Museum Award, sheds light on history.

Baksı Museum, founded by Hüsamettin Koçan in Bayburt in order to give life to a cultural environment that was fragmented due to intense migration, sheds light on history. The museum, which was opened in 2010 and received the Council of Europe Museum Award in 2014, has been repeated over generations and centuries, settling into the culture in which we live, and guiding people in understanding and interpreting the culture and the current era.


WHAT DOES BAKSI MEAN?
Baksı Museum, which means scholar, sage, physician, shaman, is built on a hill overlooking the Çoruh Valley in Bayraktar (Baksı) village, 45 kilometers away from Bayburt city center. It leaves people, art and a society under its influence with its extraordinary architecture and grandeur. The museum has a contemporary art collection, a collection of folk paintings and original examples reflecting local handicrafts. By creating a unique cultural interaction that brings together traditional arts and contemporary art for artists and researchers, the museum aims to give life to a cultural environment that has been fragmented due to intense migration in the region and to contribute to the sustainability of cultural memory.


ESTABLISHED ON AN AREA OF 40 DECARES

The museum, which has sections such as exhibition halls, workshops, conference hall, warehouse museum, library and guesthouse, is established on an area of ​​40 decares. Artist and academician from Bayburt, Prof. Dr. The museum idea, which started to be formed by Hüsamettin Koçan in 2000, continued to develop with the Baksı Culture and Arts Foundation in 2005. The main building was completed in 2010 without government support and opened to the public in July. In 2012, the Museum's new exhibition hall, the Depot Museum, was opened. One of the goals of the Baksı Museum is to bring the breath of life back to Bayburt, one of Turkey's most migratory regions, through art and to revitalize the economic life of the region.

RECEIVED THE 2014 COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUSEUM AWARD

Baksı Museum received the "2014 Council of Europe Museum Award", given under the auspices of the European Parliamentary Assembly, on April 8, at the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg. Joan Miro's bronze statuette titled Woman with Beautiful Breasts, which is the symbol of the award, was exhibited in the Museum for 1 year. .

NATURE OF BAKSI

I wanted to benefit from that explanation in order not to create information pollution on the grounds that the most accurate explanation about Baksı would be on their own website. On the site, one of the most important features that make Baksı a unique museum is shown as its structure that is open to dialogue and interactions with its geography. The continuation of his knowledge continues: "Accordingly, the works in the collection are undoubtedly beyond being just objects for viewing in the Main Building or Warehouse-Museum; they open doors to other dialogues with people and nature in that geography." Each work takes on different meanings in the museum and different meanings in nature, depending on the angle from which it is positioned or viewed. Kemal Tufan's Submarine; Like Tuğrul Selçuk's Tree of Life, Aloş's Snake or Koray Ariş's Two Headed. "The relationship with nature and the works that experience this nature are part of Baksı's original and contemporary museum perception, which is based on the 'open structure' understanding and equates art with life."

It is known as a museum that conducts research to preserve traditional culture and pass it on to future generations, and that, based on this basis, implements women's employment projects in particular.


MAIN EXHIBITION HALL
Periodically, exhibitions on today's art and designs are held in the Main Exhibition Hall of 1,500 square meters, consisting of two sections, where contemporary art and designs are exhibited. This section has the understanding of exhibiting a common topic, where different disciplines contribute to specific disciplinary knowledge.

WAREHOUSE MUSEUM
The Warehouse-Museum, which has a closed area of ​​approximately one thousand square meters, was put into service in 2012. It was planned as a section where the collections of the museum are preserved and shared with the audience. Along with today's art studies in this field; There are folk paintings, glassware and embroidery collections, inscriptions, finials, healing bowls, lithographs, pottery and ceramics, and ehrams.

LIBRARY

The purpose of building the library, which contains approximately 10 thousand publications aimed especially at encouraging children's use, is to enrich art lovers through donations of books, magazines and audio-visual materials. Educational programs are organized in the technically equipped hall with a capacity of 150 seats, which hosts seminars, conferences, panels, symposiums and shows. Efforts are also being made to make this hall a common social meeting point where surrounding villages come together on important days and celebrations.

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