About BAKSI
This extraordinary museum rising in Bayraktar village formerly known as Baksı, includes contemporary art and traditional handcrafts side-by-side under the same roof. Exhibition halls, Warehouse Museum, workshops, conference hall, library and guest house, Baksı Museum is spreading in a land of 40 acres, and it sprouted as a dream of Bayburt-born artist and academy Professor. Dr. Hüsamettin Koçan in 2000. This project is the result of an effort to carry life to Husamettin Koçan's lands.
Activities and workshops
BAKSI Museum aims to support the development of women, young people and children in the region and to contribute to education, occupation and employment. To this end, weaving workshops and ehram workshops were set up beside the museum. On these looms, almost forgotten tradition, ehram, was brought back to life by peasant women and young girls.A contemporary approach to the study of ehram was aimed to ensure that the women in the region existed in the economic life as an effective producer.
Council of Europe Museum Award
The Baksı Museum received the "2014 Annual Council of Europe Museum Award" given by the European Parliamentary Assembly at the ceremony held in Palais Rohan, Strasbourg.
The museum won the prize by outdistancing 37 museums from 22 countries. The bronze sculpture which is the symbol of the award, the work of Joan Miro was exhibited at the Bayburt Baksı Museum for a year.
