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The Antalya Atatürk House and Museum stands on Atatürk Avenue in the Muratpaşa district of Antalya. It is the two-storey house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed during his visit to the city between 6 and 11 March 1930, later turned into a museum.
The house dates from the beginning of the twentieth century and had served for a time as the provincial government building. On hearing that Atatürk was to visit, the people of Antalya cleaned and furnished it within a few days and gave it to him.
It is a stone building of two floors under a tiled roof. Inside the entrance is a long hall, with a sitting room, a room, a bathroom and a kitchen to its right and two rooms and the stairs to the upper floor on its left. On the upper floor, off the hall, are seven rooms, one of them with a balcony.
After Atatürk's death the house passed to the provincial special administration and was used from 1939 as an evening girls' art school and girls' institute. Transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1952, it served until recent years as the offices of the technical agriculture directorate.
In 1984 the house was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Because it stood in the line of the street under the city's new development plan it was demolished, and an exact copy of the demolished building was put up by the Kepez electricity company a little further back. Rectangular in plan, with two floors and two fronts, walls of stone and brick and a hipped roof of tiles, it has served as the Atatürk House and Museum since 1986.
On display are Atatürk's personal belongings along with collections of stamps and coins bearing his image, and the front pages of the newspapers the local press brought out at the time of his visit to Antalya. The museum is closed on Mondays and there is no charge for entry.
Visit status for this record: open to visitors.
