ABSTRACT
As a delightful mirage, the Baksi Museum rises, magically, on a hillside on the eastern edge of Anatolia to demonstrate the radical potential of a museum that is rooted equally strongly in a commitment to a community, to solid museological principles, and to high artistic aspirations. The museum is a point of cultural interaction and of cultural resistance in a region shattered and emptied by emigration and rapid depopulation. Impeccable, minimalistic aesthetics provide a structure and clarity around the many different interweaving artistic and social narratives of this museum as a place for social change, and an important agent in making this local area a better and more sustainable place to live.
