Baksı Museum

Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in Turkic languages. The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations".

Themes

The themes behind of yearly exhibitions, workshops and other events are notable. These are reflects aim of the museum. These themes are Travel, Traditional and contemporary art, Woman, Cultural Sustainability, Children.

Exhibitions

Vuslat Emanet, May–November 2023

AŞİNA ŞAKİR GÖKÇEBAĞ, September 2019-July 2020

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, May–August 2019

Earth, June–October 2018

The Thorn On My Foot, May–November 2017

Scent of Baksı, a multisensory installation by Ahmet Yiğider that transformed the story of the museum into an olfactory experience October 2016.

ON, August 15

The Sculptured Road To Miro, August 2014

Distance and Contact, August 2012

Custom and Art, October 2010

Preparation Stage Exhibitions

Shaman's Diary March - April 2004

Charmed Hands 2, December - January 2003

Charmed Hands, 2000-2002 (Bilgi University's Art Space Information Workshop 111)

History

The main building of the museum was completed in 2010 after a tough adventure without any financial assistance from the state. The presentation of the Baksı Museum was held in Istanbul Modern in June 2010 and the opening was in July. In 2012, the Warehouse Museum, the new exhibition hall of the museum, met with art lovers.

Areas

Exhibition halls, warehouse museum, workshops, conference hall, library and guest house, Baksı Museum is spreading in a land of 40 acres.