Guide
The building was a hotel before it was a headquarters. Three storeys, thought to have gone up in the first years of the 1900s and known as the Mesudiye Oteli, it was assigned to Mustafa Kemal Paşa as his residence and headquarters, and he worked here from 25 May to 13 June 1919 — the weeks immediately after he landed at Samsun. His room has been kept with its furnishings and is shown as the Gazi Room. For a time the building served the fire brigade.
The ground floor is laid out for handicrafts. The second floor holds his study, his sitting room and bedroom, and the Havza room, all refurnished with objects of the period.
The third floor is organised by province rather than by object: rooms for Amasya, Sivas, Erzurum and Ankara, the places where the groundwork of the national struggle was laid, each showing through pictures and texts what was done there. Ethnographic and folkloric material is displayed in the halls of two of the floors.
The governor's office notes that what it calls the Atatürk mummy on display draws considerable interest from Turkish and foreign visitors alike.
