Baksı Museum, one of the most extraordinary museums in the world, bringing together traditional arts and modern arts, BMC, one of the leading companies of the Turkish automotive industry, has joined forces to meet people living in Bayburt and surrounding provinces with culture and art. BMC gave a bus to the museum to provide access to the Baksı Museum.
Baksı Museum, which acts as a unique cultural interaction center on the hill in Bayburt, outside the city's 45 kilometer, continues to add value to its geography. Turkey is one of the leading companies in the automotive industry and is working tirelessly to Turkey over the years 50 BMC also provides full support for Bakshi Museum. The people living in the challenging geography of Bayburt and the surrounding regions will be transported to the Baksı Museum in order to meet culture and art by BMC's gift.
The focus of the Baksı Museum is human and its values
Founder of Baksı Museum Dr. Hüsamettin KOÇAN explained the importance of the bus, which is a gift to the museum, for Bayburt and the surrounding provinces:
“The Baksı Culture and Art Foundation started its museum activities in Bayraktar Village, formerly known as Baksı, 45 km from Bayburt, the smallest province of Anatolia. It is no coincidence that the Baksı Museum, which opened its doors in 2010, was established in that region. The aim was to find a solution to the cultural alienation problems of the region, the fractures and chaos caused by the social erosion that emerged due to intense migration. The focus of the Baksı Museum has always been people and their values. The Baksı Museum, which has caused the questioning of the energy that montage institutions established in different regions with different models or repeated in centers will add to the relationship between art and people, was established on a hilltop in Bayraktar Village of Bayburt in order to reach people. However, communication cannot only occur with intention, communication tools are also needed. In order for the Baksı Museum to reach the surrounding mountains and cities, a special opportunity provided by BMC brought the museum closer to each other with winding roads leading to the mountains. This great opportunity has served a great social purpose by opening the main roads that seemed to be blocked to traffic so that Baksı could reach people. The value that BMC gives to Baksı Museum will have very important results for future generations. On behalf of our museum and all the local people, I would like to thank BMC.”
Taha Yasin Öztürk, a member of the Board of Directors of BMC who expressed satisfaction with the investment they made for meeting the people of the region with culture and arts, said:
“As BMC, Turkey’s leading local and national brand, we have been taking every step for the future of our country for half a century since our establishment and we continue to work for our country without stopping. We use the expertise and knowledge we have had since 1964, together with our dynamic and strong human resources, for our work that we carry out by foreseeing the expectations and future needs of our customers. While doing all these, we never forget that we have a great responsibility towards our nation as well as our responsibility towards our employees and customers. We are very happy to support a project like Baksı Museum, which was established under the leadership of volunteers who love their country and people, and whose sole purpose is to benefit the society. We hope that the bus we delivered to Baksı Museum will be beneficial to the people of Bayburt and the surrounding regions.”
One of the most extraordinary museums in the world: BAKSI
Located on a hill overlooking the Coruh Valley in Bayburt, Baksı Museum offers new suggestions for the art world. It questions the dependence of contemporary art on city centers, the relationship between culture and production, art and craft, traditional and contemporary. The Baksı Museum has a rich collection of contemporary art, a collection of folk paintings, a collection of under glass, woven and ethnographic materials. The museum undertakes the mission of being a unique cultural interaction center that combines traditional art and contemporary art for artists and researchers and opposes the imprisonment of contemporary life to the city centers and suggests that the center be perceived from the environment.
Baksı Museum sprouted in 2000 as the individual dream of Hüsamettin Koçan, an artist and educator born in Bayburt. Over the years, it has turned into a real social project with the contribution of many volunteers, especially artists. Baksı, which opened its doors in 2010, was visited by more than one thousand people. Baksı Museum, as an interdisciplinary museum; In addition to activities such as cultural tourism, women's employment and children's festival, the company also conducts studies in the field of music.
The museum has an 10.000 library, an 150 conference hall, an 750 theater amphitheater, a guest house, workshops, exhibition halls, a warehouse museum and a helipad. The construction of the Women's Employment Center, which started in 2019, is targeted to be completed next year.
