Antalya Atatürk House Museum

The Atatürk House in Antalya is a two-storey house of stone and brick under a tiled roof, tied to the visits Mustafa Kemal Atatürk paid to the city in 1930 and 1935. Locals say the building began as a governorate house that the people of Antalya cleaned out and furnished within a few days for his arrival, then offered to him as a gift.

The house had a varied life afterwards. It passed to the provincial administration, became a girls' art school and institute, and was later used as offices by an agricultural directorate. It came under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1984. When the city's new zoning plan left it standing in the middle of a street, the old building was pulled down and rebuilt as a faithful copy set a little further back.

Since 1986 the rebuilt house has served as a museum. A long entrance hall opens onto a salon, rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen on the ground floor, while a staircase leads to seven rooms upstairs, one of them with a balcony. It is a compact, calm visit, best for anyone curious about early Republican history and about how a provincial town once welcomed its leader.