Guide
The house is a good nineteenth-century example of the traditional Adana konak — two storeys, masonry with timber, Ottoman in its details — standing in Kayalibag in the Seyhan district, and registered as immovable cultural property.
It is a museum because of who stayed in it. Atatürk first came to Adana on 31 October 1918, to take over command of the Yıldırım Army Group from the German general Liman von Sanders, and the museum's account is that the intellectual groundwork of the national struggle formed in his mind during that stay. He returned to the city many times, and on 15 March 1923 he and Latife Hanım were guests in this house, then the konak of Suphi Paşa of the Ramazanoğulları family.
The building was later abandoned by its owners and used by various public bodies before Lieutenant General Bedrettin Demirel, then commander of the 6th Corps, led its repair with the local Atatürk museum association and contributions from the people of Adana. It was expropriated and arranged in August 1976 as the Atatürk Science and Culture Museum, and on 19 May 1981 — the centenary of Atatürk's birth — it opened as the Atatürk House Museum. The earthquake of 27 June 1998 damaged it and closed it for restoration; it reopened on 15 March 2003, eighty years to the day after that 1923 visit, and every 15 March is still marked here with an official ceremony.
Practical notes from the ministry: the gates open at 08:30 and the ticket office closes at 17:30, and the ministry's own listing gives admission as free for every visitor category. There is a shop, a cafe, toilets and parking.
Visit status for this record: open to visitors.
