What does Orhan Pamuk mean when he talks about “telling stories on a human scale”?

1. Review this week’s lecture through your notes or the Zoom recording on the Cloud, and write in your Journal the main concepts explained by your professor regarding the encyclopedic museum / national museum, in bullet points.

2. Read Orhan Pamuk’s Manifesto posted in this week’s folder.

3. Also, go to the website: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/fQXB5WJstlG5LQ?hl=en and do a virtual visit of the Museum of Innocence.

4. Reply these questions in your Journal:

What does Orhan Pamuk mean when he talks about “telling stories on a human scale”?
Thinking about museums in the UAE, do you agree or disagree with Orhan Pamuk’s statement “We don’t need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species”? Why?
Do you think that big national museums such as the Louvre and the British Museum fail at telling individual stories? Why?
Imagine to create a national museum of the United Arab Emirates: should it be structured/modelled like a cabinet of curiosity, a royal collection, an encyclopedic museum or a museum telling the story of individuals (as described by Orhan Pamuk in his “Manifesto”, and in his Museum of Innocence)?
Why would your chosen structure/model be the best to tell the story of your country and its people? Explain in detail.

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