Baksı Müzesi

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Baksı Museum

Baksı Museum
Established	2005; 19 years ago (2005)
Location	Bayraktar, Bayburt Bayburt Turkey
Coordinates	40°23′8″N 40°33′59″E / 40.38556°N 40.56639°E / 40.38556; 40.56639
Type	Contemporary art
President	Hüsamettin Koçan
Curator	Baksı Culture and Art Foundation
Nearest car park	Available
Website	baksi.org/en/anasayfa

Baksı Museum is a museum located in Bayburt, Turkey. “Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in Turkic languages.^[1] The museum offers contemporary art and traditional handcrafts. The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations".^[2]