The mansion known as the İmamizade Raşit Ağa house, now serving as the Atatürk House and Museum in Kayseri, is a nineteenth-century Turkish house of the late Ottoman period. Beyond its architectural interest it has a specific historical claim: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed here for two nights on 19 and 20 December 1919, on his first visit to Kayseri on behalf of the Representative Committee.
The house was registered as protected cultural property in 1976, expropriated by the Ministry of Culture in 1978 and opened as the Atatürk House in 1983; on 19 December 1998 its second floor was rearranged and began serving as the Atatürk Museum. Furnished with elegant furniture and decoration alongside the features of its period and region, the house displays belongings of Atatürk and holds a wax figure of him together with documents and photographs relating to his visit.
Getting there
- Access
- In the city centre.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kayseri as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.5 °C in January to 22.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
Visiting hours
- Hours
- 08:30 - 17:30, closed Monday
