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for performances by the Akbank Chamber Orchestra. It also publishes the Contemporary Art Map İstanbul, a handy bi-monthly guide to art events around town. This is available at cafes, design shops and galleries, or online through its website.

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1 Çukurcuma & Cihangir o MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE

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( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Masumiyet Müzesi; % 0212-252 9738; www.masumiyetmuzesi.org; Çukurcuma Caddesi, Dalgıç Çıkmazı 2; adult/student ₺ 25/10; h 10am-6pm Tue-Sun, to 9pm Thu; j Tophane) The painstaking attention to detail in this fascinating museum/piece of conceptual art will certainly provide every amateur psychologist with a theory or two about its creator, Nobel Prize–winning novelist Orhan Pamuk. Vitrines display a quirky collection of objects that evoke the minutiae of İstanbullu life in the mid- to late 20th century, when Pamuk’s novel of the same name is set.