Ömür Tufan
Archeologist

Tufan was born in 1967 in Balıkesir. After graduating from the Department of Archeology and Art History at Istanbul Technical University in 1991, he started working as a museum expert at Topkapı Palace in 1997. In 2000, he went to Japan with a one-year grant from the Japanese government to do research on Japanese porcelains. In 2003, he held a four-month exhibition on Beykoz glassware at the Museum of Topkapı Palace. A year later, he was in charge of the exhibition “From the Land of the Ottoman Sultans” that opened in Singapore and contributed to its catalog. In 2005, he curated and wrote the catalog for an exhibition on European Porcelains in Ottoman palaces. The same year, he wrote an article for the magazine Antikdekor entitled “Kakiemon Japanese Porcelains,” and in 2006, again for the same magazine, one on the Japanese porcelains produced at Kutani this time. He has also written articles for the periodical Anatolia, published in Tokyo, and given lectures in various places in Japan on the Japanese porcelain collection housed in Topkapı Palace.