Konya Atatürk House Museum

This two-storey house on Atatürk Avenue was built in 1912 of cut stone, rubble and brick. It served as the governor's residence, and Atatürk stayed here whenever he came to Konya. In 1927 the municipality bought it, and in 1928 it was registered in Atatürk's name as an expression of the city's gratitude; the deed even carries the words, roughly, a gift of the people of Konya to President Gazi Mustafa Kemal Pasha.

After a later period as the governor's residence, it was handed to the Ministry of National Education and opened as the Atatürk House Cultural Museum in 1964. A restoration led to its reopening as the Atatürk Museum in 1982. The arrangement respects the building's character as a home, with no changes that would spoil its architecture.

The museum explains Konya's part in the War of Independence through documents and photographs. The ground floor presents material from before the Republic and Atatürk's visits, with panels of photographs, documents and newspaper clippings, along with the daily notes he kept in this house. Some of his clothes and everyday objects are displayed too.