Anatolian Weights and Cultural Heritage Seminar

Seminar

December 14, 2024 / 10:30

Pera Museum presents Anatolian Weights and Cultural Heritage Seminar for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers within the scope of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection. This seminar, which examines ancient measuring instruments within the framework of cultural heritage studies, aims to provide new perspectives on preservation and cultural heritage through a thematic approach offered by the collection. This intensive one-day program consists of seminars and workshops.

In the program’s first session, the Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection and the cultural heritage studies conducted within this framework are explored. The second session addresses the illicit trafficking of cultural assets, focusing on archaeological artifacts with examples from the past to the present and case studies. In the third session, archaeological cultural assets are discussed in the context of art crimes. The workshop analyzes the inventory status of Anatolian-origin cultural assets by using current databases and accessible collections worldwide.

 For a detailed seminar schedule and application requirements, please click here.

The seminar will be held at Istanbul Research Institute. The program is free and in Turkish. Students traveling from outside the city are responsible for covering their accommodation and transportation expenses.

Temporary Exhibition

The Art of Weights and Measures

As the measurement of discovery became the substance of myths, weighing and measuring, beyond being mere physical actions, became an important means of self-expression to those captivated by the universe and what lay beyond the boundaries of knowledge. 

The Art of Weights and Measures

Face to Face

Face to Face

A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. 

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974)

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974)

Louis Isadore Kahn was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Pärnu, Russia (today Estonia), far from Philadelphia where he spent his whole life, worked, fell in love, and breathed his last. Kahn family emigrated to America when he was five years old. 

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.  Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.