Evaluation of Gertrude Stein's studio in the context of postmodern museum practices

Today, museums are trying to adapt their exhibition and presentation techniques, approaches, and practices to the environments in which new art is produced and to our age. In the definition of a contemporary museum prepared by the International Council of Museums, it is emphasized that the museum is a non-profit, permanent institution that researches, collects, preserves, interprets, exhibits, and is at the service of society. Along with updating its functions with its new definition, the museum has become responsible for promoting diversity and sustainability as a public, accessible, and inclusive institution. To provide a variety of experiences for education, entertainment, and knowledge sharing; working ethically, professionally, and with the participation of communities, as well as communicating with visitors and audiences, has been added to the definition as the functions that museums assume responsibility for. In this context, with the changing definition, important changes have started to occur in the context of museum visits and in the expectations of visitors. Museum visits, which have started to become individual journeys, become experiences that support lifelong learning with exhibitions that are created in accordance with this expectation that came to the fore with the new definition, and where principles such as "inclusivity", "learning by sharing", which are postmodern museum criteria, are focused and presented. In this study, the art studio of the American writer Gertrude Stein, which is described as "the first museum of modern art", is discussed through the concept of a contemporary micro-museum. In this context, examples of museums that are open to diversity, encouraging intercultural communication, organized around Gertrude Stein's "salon-studio model" and will open their doors to the audience, have been examined in Turkey and abroad. The Adam Michiewicz Museum, Doğançay Museum, Orhan Kemal Museum, and Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul, which are thought to be suitable for the salon-studio model in terms of content, were examined and it has been discussed how the dissemination of the salon-studio model will contribute to the concept of postmodern museum and contemporary museum practices by evaluating together with the examples from abroad.