Akşehir Western Front Headquarters Museum

After the victory at the Battle of Sakarya, the enemy dug in east of the Afyon–Eskişehir line, and the Western Front command moved from Alagöz village to Akşehir. It arrived on 18 November 1921 and installed itself in the municipal building. It worked there until 24 August 1922, when it left for the front for the Great Offensive.

Over nine and a half months the preparations for the Great Offensive were directed from this building, its plans drawn up and its decision made here. Mustafa Kemal came to Akşehir many times to inspect the work and guide the preparations.

The building was constructed in 1904 to 1905 as a town hall, in the time of Mayor Bostan Bey. It has two storeys, a stone base, and brick and lath-and-plaster construction. The shopfronts on the east and south sides of the ground floor were closed to make room for two sgraffito panels, one showing the preparations for the offensive and one the offensive itself.

When the municipality moved to another building in 1965, the headquarters was donated to the ministry on condition that it become a museum. After a major repair it opened on 5 July 1966 as the Atatürk and Ethnography Museum, and after another restoration in 1981 it took its present name. Upstairs, the large room in the south corner kept its original materials and served as Atatürk's work room.