Orhan Pamuk’s manifesto for museums

Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, who founded the Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, was a keynote speaker at the International Council of Museums (ICOM) conference in Milan this week. He delivered the following message, first published by the Italian newspaper La Stampa, by video link. He stressed that in the future we need "small and economical museums that address our humanity". Pamuk said: "All museums are genuine treasures of humankind, but I am against these precious