“Baksı” literally means “healer, helper, protector” in Turkic languages.

The basic aim of the foundation is, as quoted by founder Professor Hüsamettin Koçan, to "disseminate art and culture by bringing together contemporary and traditional art, to collect, document, classify, preserve and promote works of contemporary and traditional art, to use this base in realizing creation, and to hand local and national cultural values down to future generations".

[2] The main building of the museum was completed in 2010 after a tough adventure without any financial assistance from the state.

The presentation of the Baksı Museum was held in Istanbul Modern in June 2010 and the opening was in July.

[3] Exhibition halls, Warehouse Museum, workshops, conference hall, library and guest house, Baksı Museum is spreading in a land of 40 acres.