The famous writer, Orhan Pamuk , is the world’s first writer to create a novel and a museum about his work as well as to have a documentary made about his project.

Pamuk came up with the idea in 1990s to write a novel and to make a museum at the same time.

The 2008 book “The Museum of Innocence” tells a story of a wealthy businessman’s pursuit of his first true love, who collects any object she may have touched, from lipsticks to cigarette stubs; items which end up becoming a shrine, or the museum of the novel’s title.

The museum is set in the Beyoğlu neighbourhood of Istanbul and was inaugurated in 2012. Now a new version of his collection “The Museum of Innocence” can be seen in London’s Somerset House.

In the latest addition to the collection, British filmmaker Grant Gee made a documentary called “Innocence of Memories” providing a visual representation of the book’s story.

The exhibition runs at London’s Somerset House until April while the film is showing at selected cinemas across the UK.