the preparations for the Final Attack were directed from there, the plans were made and decisions were taken there. Within this period, Mustafa Kemal comes to Akşehir many times and inspects the studies, directs the plans. The building was constructed as the Municipality Building in the period of Lord Mayor Bostan Bey, in 1904-1905. The two-story building is of stone foundation and the materials are brick, lath and plaster. The fronts of the shops in the east and west part of the ground floor of the building were closed and a pane was made with agraphyto technique to make the Final Attack preparations.
The headquarter building, which is the document of hope and struggle days, was donated to the Ministry on condition that it would be a museum, as the municipality had moved to another building in 1965. After great restorations, it was opened to visit on July 5, 1966 as “Atatürk and Ethnography Museum”. After the restoration and arrangement made in 1981, it takes its current name due to its function.
There is the administrative department on the ground floor of the museum. The upper floor is the room in the south corner in which Atatürk studied and great decisions were taken and which remained with its original materials from the headquarter period to now. The rooms on both sides of this room are the studying rooms of Headquarter Chief İsmet İNÖNÜ and Chief of the Staff Asım GÜNDÜZ. The wax statue of İsmet Pasha is put on his studying table. In the showcases in the room that is in the north corner, the materials gifted to Atatürk and that are used by him and his weapons are displayed.
In the other four rooms, the bibliographies of the officers working in the headquarter, quotations from “Nutuk”, tablets, photographs, maps, documents and weapons are displayed.