Atatürk Müze Köşkü

About Atatürk Müze Köşkü

The Atatürk Museum Mansion (Atatürk Müze Köşkü) stands inside the Presidential Çankaya campus and is the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lived and worked from 1921 to 1932, until he moved to the Pembe Köşk. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the house witnessed key events of the War of Independence and the first years of the Republic, and it was here that Atatürk planned his reforms, including the founding of the Republic. The building began as a 19th-century vineyard house. In 1921 it was presented to Atatürk on behalf of the people of Ankara, led by the city's mufti, Hoca Rıfat Börekçi. Turkish Wikipedia records that after his marriage in 1923 the house was enlarged by the architect Vedat Tek, giving it its present form in 1924, with a two-storey annexe and a half-octagonal tower; the south-west tower was refitted as a study for Atatürk in 1930. The mansion opened as a museum in 1950. A conservation programme from 2002 to 2007 rearranged it to be shown as a home of its period rather than as a conventional museum, and the ministry notes that guided visits aim to give visitors the feeling of being inside a house where life still goes on. Rooms described by Turkish Wikipedia include the Green Room once used to receive ambassadors, a tiled dining room with a large fireplace, the library with Atatürk's books and the desk and chair he used while writing the Nutuk speech of 1927, an Art Deco study and an exhibition hall in the former service wing. After a further restoration begun in 2022, it reopened on 10 November 2024. Visits are free and by appointment only, guided, in groups of up to 20; the museum is closed on Mondays. Book through the Presidency by phone or online, and enter the Çankaya campus through gate 1 on foot or gate 2 by car.