Estanbul 2010

Atatürk Museum is located on Halaskargazi Street in Şişli district of Istanbul. A beautiful three storied building was residence (later restored) for Atatürk after his return from the Syrian front.  It is a significant museum where his photographs, personal collections, paintings and a set of  historical documents belong to the Turkish Reform are exhibited there now.

After returning from the Syrian front, Mustafa Kemal rented the house where he lived with his mother,-Zubeyde Hanım-and sister – Makbule – His mother and sister lived upper storey, he himself lived in the middle floor of  the house and his aide-de-camp lived in the lower storey. The house was built in 1908 and  witnessed many meetings that were realized by Mustafa Kemal  and his friends during the invasion of Istanbul after World War I.

The house, where Mustafa Kemal lived up until May 16th, 1919 before he went to Samsun was bought by Tahsin Uzer in 1924, a former Governer of Erzurum, and placed a wall sign at the entrance door of the house explaining where Mustafa Kemal once lived.

This historical house, which has Mustafa Kemal Pasha’s many unforgettable memories was bought from Tahsin Uzer in 1928 by Istanbul Municipality, then converted into a house where some of his clothes, personal belongings, the documents that have moral value bear his signature and paintings of notable people of that period are on display in this house. The house was converted to museum called Atatürk Revolution Museum and opened to visitors on June 15th, 1942 in the period of Lütfi Kırdar Kırdar, who was mayor and later governor of Istanbul. It was repaired after the insurrection of 1960 by the initiation of Istanbul Mayor Refik Tulga. However, a fire took place in the building in 1962 and the museum was partly damaged.

A large-scale restoration on the historic building was completed on the 100th birthday of Atatürk. After the restoration works, which were completed in accordance with architectural design of 1910, the museum was named “Atatürk Museum” and was opened to visitors again on May 19th, 1981. The museum-house of Atatürk was renovated once again in 1989 and since 1991 in which it was opened to the public and it continues to entertain  its domestic and foreign visitors.