Türkiye'de özel sanat koleksiyonlarının müzeleşme sürecinde 2010 yılı sonrası yeni oluşumlar

This Master's dissertation, titled "New Inclinations in the Museumification Process of Private Museums in Turkey After 2010" comprises the development of art collectorship in Turkey through the concept of collections and in comparison with the Western world, the transformation of these art collections into private museums in the 2000s, and the new inclinations regarding the location choices of private museums after 2010. Ever since the prehistoric period, at times to meet their biological needs and at times to satiate their religious instincts, humans have researched, discovered, and collected, evolving over the centuries to do it consciously and consistently, becoming collectors, and later, with rational categorization and institutionalization, secularizing their collections, thus establishing museums. Becoming wealthier through commerce, While collectorship developed in Europe starting with the Renaissance in the 15th century, leading to collections becoming public in the 17th century and the start of modern museumification in the century that followed, it was the bourgeoisie that birthed European collectorship. The absence of a noble class outside the Sultan and his family that could correspond to the bourgeoisie which birthed European collectorship, the upper-classes lacking the same amount of privilege and influence as their western counterparts, as well as the Empire's somewhat frequent financial and societal crises delayed the emergence of collectors in the Ottoman Empire by about 2 centuries, even though there were similarities to European collections regarding the aggregation methods and logic. Museumification was similarly delayed by two centuries, emerging after the 19th century. The foundations of art collectorship lay with the autonomy and the commodification of art, which created its own market. Thus, art collectorship and the art market always progress simultaneously. In the Republic of Turkey, founded by Atatürk, the early period national culture policies made the state the primary patron of arts. However, liberal economic policies starting in the 1980s allowed private capital to take over from the state, launching a period where artworks and collectorship increased. Attempting to integrate itself with the world as a result of the globalization policies of the 1990s, the 2000s for the Turkish art market, dominated by private capital, coincide with a highly dynamic period when the recently growing population of art collectors founded private museums in İstanbul by which they could receive exposure and recognition. This period saw the emergence of culture and arts events and activities in the periphery. After 2010 this was followed by collectors who wished to bring their collections to the lands where they were born and dreamt about showing revealing the existence of a culture outside the center, who then established museums towards that goal. As part of the research, we began with the roots of collectorship, working toward the museumification of Western art collections from Europe to the US. Here, we pivot to the Ottoman Empire, making our way through to the Republic of Turkey with its political, financial, and social background, over which we not only take a two thousand five hundred year long journey through the development of the art market and collectorship, but also examine private museums founded after 2010 in Anatolia to create bonds and connections with their cities in addition to making these into popular cultural stops, thus inspiring new ones to launch, therefore occupying an important spot in art history. We aim to contribute to future research with this examination. Keywords: Collection, Collecting, Collectorship, Art Market, Private Museums