Rize Atatürk Museum

Rize Atatürk Museum

Rize Atatürk Müzesi
Rize Atatürk Museum
Established	1992 (1992)
Location	Müftü mah Kirazlık sokak Rize, Turkey
Coordinates	Coordinates: 41°01′24″N 40°32′03″E / 41.02333°N 40.53417°E / 41.02333; 40.53417
Type	Memorial House, Ethnography
Owner	Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Rize Atatürk Museum (Turkish: Atatürk Evi Müzesi, aka Mehmet Mataracı Konağı) is a museum in Rize, Turkey

The museum is in Müftü quarter of Rize locally known as Mehmet Mataracı mansion.^[1] At 41°01′24″N 40°32′03″E / 41.02333°N 40.53417°E / 41.02333; 40.53417, it is to the east of the city Stadium and to the south of the main road.

The museum building is a 3 storey mansion. It was built in 1921. In 1924 Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk) , the founder of Turkey, stayed in this house during his visit to Rize. In 1881 (the 100th birth year of Atatürk) the owners of the house granted it to the governorship of Rize to design it as a Atatürk's House. The museum was opened on 27. December 1985.^[2]

In the ground floor some inscriptions and tombstones are exhibited. In the first floor, there are traditional weaving instruments as well as other ethnographic items. In the second floor memorial items of Atatürk such as his personal belongings and photos about the Turkish War of Independence are exhibited.^[1]

References

1. 1 2 Black Sea page (Turkish)
2. ↑ Ministry of Culture Rize branch page

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