The museum is two museums stacked on each other, and the split is worth knowing before you go in. The ground floor is given to the national resistance movement, the Kuvayı Milliye, and the floor above it to Ali Fuat Cebesoy himself. It opened on 30 October 1989 as the Kuvayı Milliye and Ali Fuat Cebesoy Museum.
The house stands in the Alifuatpaşa quarter of Geyve on the bank of the Sakarya, beside the historic bridge of Bayezid II and immediately behind the Merkez Mosque. It is a two-storey masonry building that served as the municipal offices before a council decision in 1989 handed its use to the provincial administration.
Downstairs, entered from the south front, a central hall has three rooms to each side. The room immediately right of the entrance is the office and the one on the left the library; the rest are hung with photographs of the people who served in the Kuvayı Milliye period, the texts of the Amasya, Erzurum and Sivas congresses, copies of Atatürk's Tenth Year Speech in his own hand, and a chronology with maps to put the sequence in order.
The upper floor is reached by concrete stairs on the west face of the building and entered at the northwest corner. Cebesoy's clothes, his bedstead, his medals, documents, photographs and his sketches of battles are shown in the hall and the rooms around it. The whole collection comes to 73 items, 26 of them ethnographic and 47 archive documents.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:00 - 12:00 and 12:30 - 16:30, closed Monday
When to go
- Climate
- Across Sakarya as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 6.3 °C in January to 23.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (106 mm) and lightest in August (48 mm). Long-term means for 1951-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
