The Alaçam Exchange Museum stands in the Alaçam district of Samsun and is, according to Turkish Wikipedia, the first museum in Türkiye on the subject of the population exchange. It holds ethnographic material — daily objects, documents and photographs — of the people who settled in Samsun through the exchange of populations between Türkiye and Greece. More than ten thousand people visit each year.
The building was put up in the last quarter of the nineteenth century to serve as a primary school and was taken over and used by various institutions in later years. It was restored by the Samsun provincial special administration in 2010. It was opened as a museum by the Samsun metropolitan municipality, with the help of the Alaçam Exchange and Balkan Turkish Culture Research Association.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Samsun as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.2 °C in February to 23.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in November (83 mm) and lightest in July (35 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
