Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality brought a new museum to the city within the Science Center located in Seka Park, Turkey's largest industrial transformation project. Kocaeli Photography Technologies Museum opened its doors with cameras and hundreds of auxiliary parts from past to present.
WIDE PARTICIPATION
Kocaeli Photography Technologies Museum, created by Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality on the upper floor of SEKA Paper Museum, opened its doors to its visitors with a ceremony. Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tahir Büyükakın, Museum Consultant KOÜ Photography Department Vice President Dr. Oylum Tunçeli, KOÜ Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Nilgün Fığlalı, the son of Kocaeli photographer İlker Kumral, Değer Kumral, photographers and many guests attended.
DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY
The Kocaeli Photography Technologies Museum, which reveals the change in photography technology from past to present, and the historical development in cameras and accessories, has a section with photographs and life stories of photographers from Kocaeli, Fahri Seyrek, Halil İbrahim Atmaca, Cemal Turgay and Naci Girginsoy. There are bellows cameras, auxiliary photography equipment, films and spy cameras, especially the 162-year-old camera in the museum. Photographers belonging to Kocaeli photographer İlker Kumral were given to the museum by his son Değer Kumral. Photographer İlker Kumral's son Değer Kumral, who took the floor at the opening of the museum, stated that his father İlker Kumral's biggest dream was realized, and Kocaeli Metropolitan Mayor Tahir Büyükükın said: he thanked.
“SEKA WILL BE AN ARCHEOPARK”
Stating that the Photography Technologies museum is included in Turkey's largest industrial transformation project, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Tahir Büyükakın said, “There is a history here, and there is also history under this building. In the past months, we announced the Seka Culture Basin project with the famous architect Emre Arolat. This place is a candidate to be an archaeopark. We are currently opening a museum inside a museum. There is an industrial museum here. There is a great memory here. Museums are concrete spaces that connect the past to the future. This will be a huge cultural basin. We are getting there step by step. This will be a destination area to point with the center finger. We established our photography museum on an area of 320 square meters. The place where we established the museum used to be the chief of the printing press. 310 cameras are on display. At the same time, auxiliary materials are also in our museum.”
VISITED THE MUSEUM
After the speeches, Kocaeli Photography Technologies Museum was opened. The photographic film frame was cut instead of the opening ribbon. Then, the participants visited the museum where there are cameras and hundreds of auxiliary parts from the past to the present.
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