Bursa Atatürk Museum ( tr, Bursa Atatürk Evi Müzesi) is a

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

, Turkey. The museum is at at Çekirge quarter of

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district in

Bursa Province Bursa Province ( tr, ) is a province in Turkey along the Sea of Marmara coast in northwestern Anatolia. It borders Balıkesir to the west, Kütahya to the south, Bilecik and Sakarya to the east, Kocaeli to the northeast and Yalova to the nor ...

. The museum is a three-storey house. It was probably built towards the end of the 19th century. When Atatürk, the founder of Turkey, visited Bursa on 20 January 1923 (after the

Turkish War of Independence The Turkish War of Independence "War of Liberation", also known figuratively as ''İstiklâl Harbi'' "Independence War" or ''Millî Mücadele'' "National Struggle" (19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923) was a series of military campaigns waged by th ...

and before the proclamation of the Republic) he stayed in this house which was recently bought by the municipality of Bursa from its former owner Miralay ("colonel") Mehmet Bey. During the next ten visits Atatürk stayed in this house, the last one being on 1 February 1938 during his illness. Total time Atatürk spent in this house is 2 months and 20 days. After Atatürk's death the house was handed over to the management of Çelik Palas, the biggest hotel in Bursa which was next to the house. But in 1965, it was bought by the Ministry of National Education . In 1973 it was opened as Atatürk's house. In the ground floor there are photos of Atatürk. Atatürk's office as well as the bedroom and the bathroom are in the upper floor. The uppermost floor is a guesthouse.Atatürk page
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