Pera Adult
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Throughout history, weights used in Anatolia for everyday purposes and shopping carry the spirit of their time. How did you design your personal weight with the spirit of today?
Participants will visit The Art of Weights and Measures with a guide and examine the weights used by merchants who lived in Anatolia in the past, and learn about the practices and stories of people in different geographies who tried to understand the world through the acts of measuring and weighing. Then, inspired by the weights depicting mythical figures, animals and urban stories of the period, participants design weights that reflect today's icons from ceramic clay dough.
Capacity: 12 people D
uration: 90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 400 TL
The event will take place at the Pera Museum.
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
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. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)