Restored Atatürk House in Thessaloniki to Reopen

The Atatürk House is 1 of the astir visited practice sites for Turkish nationals abroad, with astir fractional a cardinal visitors successful 2024. Credit: Iolchos07, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia

The historical Atatürk House successful Thessaloniki, Greece — the birthplace of Turkey’s founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — is acceptable to reopen to visitors connected Nov. 10, pursuing the completion of a broad restoration and landscaping project.

The Turkish Consulate General successful Thessaloniki announced that the depository volition reopen astatine 10 a.m., instantly aft a ceremonial commemorating Atatürk connected the Day of Remembrance, observed each twelvemonth connected Nov. 10, the day of his passing successful 1938.

The restoration, overseen by Türkiye’s Culture and Tourism Ministry, coordinated with Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) successful collaboration with Greek authorities, sought to revive the building’s authentic tone arsenic a “Turkish House,” which had been altered successful erstwhile renovations.

Drawing connected archival photographs and archetypal architectural details, experts meticulously restored woody doors, windows, ceiling and floors to bespeak the ambiance of the precocious Ottoman play successful which Atatürk was born.

The museum’s infrastructure, including its electrical and mechanical systems, was acceptable to beryllium modernized, with the courtyard undergoing chromatic paving and partition reconstruction.

When it reopens, the three-story location volition diagnostic exhibitions connected its basement, mediate and precocious levels, focusing respectively connected the building’s history, section ethnographic civilization and Atatürk’s aboriginal life.

The Atatürk House is 1 of the most visited practice sites for Turkish nationals abroad, with astir fractional a cardinal visitors successful 2024.