Atatürk's House Museum () is a national

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Şebinkarahisar Şebinkarahisar is a town in Giresun Province in the Black Sea region of northeastern Turkey. It is the administrative seat of Şebinkarahisar District.

Giresun Province Giresun Province (Greek language, Greek : Κερασούντα, ; ) is a Provinces of Turkey, province of Turkey on the Black Sea coast. Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon Province, Trabzon to the east, Gümüşhane Province, Gümüşhane to the ...

, northern Turkey dedicated to the visit of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal and revolutionary statesman who was the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first President of Turkey, president from 1923 until Death an ...

to this town.

Location and history

Atatürk's House Museum is located in the Bülbül neighborhood of Şebinkarahisar's center. The building is a plain two-storey wooden

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house, which was rebuilt original. President

(), the founder of the Turkish Republic, stayed one night during his visit in the town on 11 October 1924. The building date of the original house, which was owned by Tüfekçizade Mustafa Ertem, is estimated to be end of 19th century or right at the beginning of the 20th century. The building was expropriated by the

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. Various restoration and repair works in accordance with the house's original state were carried out and furnished in 1932 with a financial allowance by the General Directorate of Highways totaling to 3 million (ca. US$ 1.5 million at that time). The building was opened on 11 October 1982 as a museum to visitors at the 58th anniversary of Atatürk's arrival in Şebinkarahisar. Owned by the

, the building's allocation was transferred on 2 May 1986 from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to the Municipality of Şebinkarahisar.

The building

The building and its garden are located on a platform a little higher from the road level. The entrance to the ground floor is from the east, through a wide wooden door. From this floor, which is not actively used, a wooden helical staircase leads to the second floor. However, the main access to the second floor is through a separate entrance from the north. There is a monumental entrance with a protruding triangular pediment, supported by wooden columns, and ten stone-stepped stairs and a two-winged wooden door. This is the floor used as the actual museum, and right above it is the half-floor

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, which is not visible from the front. This attic is accessed from the second floor via a wooden helical staircase.

The museum

In the Atatürk's House Museum, some items used by Atatürk during his stay and some local ethnographic artifacts are exhibited. In the museum, the beds in the room, where Atatürk and his aide stayed, the desk, armchairs and chairs, sofas, the piano in its original state and some other historical items as well as various local ethnographic artifacts are exhibited. It also includes an Atatürk Library of 500 books and an Atatürk Corner with pictures. The museum, which has no technical or expert staff, is opened to visitors on important days and upon request by officials appointed by the municipality.

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Location and history

The building

The museum

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