Özet:

In essence, the museum contains the history, culture and life of the place where it is located. The museum has an important place in terms of protecting, exhibiting and transferring cultural assets to the users in material and spiritual terms. The searches for exhibiting the works and reaching the users have enriched the concept and method of museology and the understanding of “Modern Museology” entered our lives in the 20th century. In the understanding of the modern museum, the museum exhibits constantly-changing works; It aims to use the communication tools of the period effectively and to integrate with the users by establishing a strong communication. Supporting practices such as workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, alternative guide support in the museum try to optimize the museum visit experience. One of these, (OMM), Eskişehir Odunpazarı Modern Museum is an important example of modern museum understanding with its location, architectural language, way of presenting the works and the activities it performs. Odunpazarı Modern Museum, whose foundation was laid in February 2018. It was realized by architect and collector Erol Tabanca. The Odunpazarı Modern Museum, designed by Japanese architecture office Kengo Kuma & Associates, was completed in 2019. The museum won the 18th Museums + Heritage Awards (Museum and Cultural Heritage Awards)"International Project of the Year", organized in the UK. Within the scope of the study, the contextual relationship established by the Odunpazarı Modern Museum with the historical Odunpazarı region will be analyzed. In this direction, first of all, the architect of the building, Kengo Kuma's understanding of design has been analyzed. Afterwards, local and characteristic features of Eskişehir's historical Odunpazarı region were determined and the physical spatial and contextual relationship established by the Odunpazarı Modern Museum with the region was analyzed.

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