
In 1999, writer Orhan Pamuk bought a three story building in
Istanbul to interact as a museum with his new novel, "Museum of
Innocence," a first of its kind of this application.
He hired an
architect, Ihsan Bilgin, before he started the novel to transform the
building into a museum where the novel and the museum criss cross each
other in a love story between Kemal and Fusun, the main characters. In
an autobiographical story, Kemal obsessively collects every object
Fusun touches, in remembrance of their complex history into the Museum
he builts... After nine years, both Book (Turkish and German print at
this time) and the Museum are available.