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İzmir
Atatürk Museum
The museum is on 1st Kordon (Atatürk
Street) and it was established as a house
by carpet merchant Takfor between 1875 -
1880. The building was deserted by its owner
on September 9th, 1922 and transferred to
the ownership of the Treasury. The Turkish
army who entered to İzmir used this place
as headquarters. Atatürk executed his personal
activities here when İzmir Economy Congress
gathered on February 17th,
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1923. At the
end of the congress, the headquarters
moved from this building and
the Treasury hired out the building
to Mr. Naim to be used as a
hotel. When Atatürk came to
İzmir on June 16th, 1926, he
stayed in Naim Palas with İsmet
Pasha. The building was purchased
by İzmir Municipality on October
13th, 1926 and given to Atatürk
as a gift with some new furniture.
At his each visit to İzmir,
Atatürk stayed in this house
between the years 1930 - 1934.
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Upon death
of Atatürk on November 10th,
1938, the house was transferred
to his sister Makbule Baysan
due to inheritance. On September
25th, 1940, İzmir Municipality
expropriated the house in order
to make it a museum. The museum
was opened to public on September
11th, 1941, which was the 19th
year of Atatürk's arrival to
İzmir. The museum was renamed
as "Atatürk Public Library
and İzmir Atatürk Museum"
on October 5th, 1962.
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On December 28th, 1972,
the ownership of the building
was given to İzmir Archaeology
Museum with the letter of
Undersecretariat of Culture
numbered 12088. After being
restored, the building was
opened to visit with a ceremony
on October 29th, 1978 with
its new name "Atatürk
and Ethnography Museum".
The name of the museum was
changed to "Atatürk
Museum" after the ethnographic
works in the museum was
moved to the new Ethnography
Museum established on May
13th, 1988.
It is a building in neoclassic
style constructed with the
mixture of Ottoman and Levantine
architecture. It consists
of basement, ground floor,
1st floor and roof. Its
rectangle-planned backside
is a brick structure covering
an 852 m2 area with colonnade
and courtyard. There is
a corbel at 1st floor at
the front side.
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The base
of the whole ground floor
is covered with large
marble plates. In the
saloon, there is a 34,5
m2 Uşak carpet on the
floor, there are marble
statues, big crystal mirror
and Atatürk bust on the
left and right niches.
There are excellent 19th
century style fireplaces
in the rooms located left
and right and in the small
hall. There are 2 bronze
chevalier statues at the
beginning of the stairs
going to first floor standing
as wall-light. A big Atatürk
portrait is hung at the
stair
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landing.
Atatürk's personal rooms
are on the 1st floor.
These rooms are as follows:
Meeting room, working
room, bed room, guest
room, barber room, guard
room, waiting - reception
room, library, dining
room and bathroom. There
is a roulette table with
green broadcloth and 12
Cosmos trademark chairs
in the meeting room. Some
scenes from Shekaspeare's
works are animated on
the porcelain plates at
the back of 10 small mahogany
chairs. There is a bed
made of mahogany, two
bedside tables, two velvet
coaches, one sofa, one
deck chair, one marquise
and one wardrobe in the
bedroom. The bedrooms
are furnished according
to the fashion of the
period. There is a French
encyclopedia in the library.
In the working room there
exists a working table
made of oak and a writing
set of Atatürk. Bronze
statues, vases and oil
painting pictures ornament
the rooms. The floors
are covered with Isparta
and Uşak carpets.
Museum Tel : (+
90 - 232) 464 48 05
Address: 1. Kordon
Open hours to visit:
08.30 - 12.00 13.00 -
17.00
Open days to visit:
Everyday except Monday
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