. The museum operates by appointment only, so if you’re there, chances are you already know a little bit about it.talked to its founder, Mehmet Naci Akoz, 63, about his lifelong dedication to anything kite-related.
He thought that this was not good practice, and decided to forge his own path: “I asked them why they didn’t give me a prize, and they told me it was a kite festival, and not a competition. Three to five months later it still stuck in my mind, that I came first, and somebody else came second and third, and there should be a competition for kites. So a year later, a week before the newspaper’s kite festival, on April 22, 1984, I organised the first kite competition in Turkey.
“When I first heard there was a kite museum in Japan, I was intrigued,” Akoz says. “I said ‘Wow, these guys have established a kite museum!’ Then I realised other countries also had them. In this time period, I made overseas trips, taking part in international festivals, trying to gather everything I could about kites. Then I realised I had a collection in my hands, however modest it was.”
to older audiences, high school students and older, “all 2,500 years of it.” He says “We discuss the kites’ origin in China 500 years BCE, how they spread in the Far East, how they were used in wars, how they were used in religious affairs, how they affected the public… In the 13th century kites arrived in the West. They were the subject of scientific exploration. The kite is the forefather of planes, of drones.
According to Akoz the Istanbul Kite Museum boasts about 3,000 items from 6 continents and 39 countries, of which 1,300 are kites. “Some 1,000 [published, textual] items are part of our library. The rest are objects and materials. For example someone more interested in the technical side comes along and asks about a specific piece [of a kite]. We immediately pull that object from our collection and explain it fully to the visitor.”Akoz says first time visitors usually come to see the kites.
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