Alaçam Population Exchange Museum, History museum in Alaçam, Turkey.
The Alaçam Population Exchange Museum occupies a renovated two-story building from the 19th century that previously functioned as a primary school during Ottoman times.
Following the 1923 Lausanne Convention, this museum documents the mandatory population exchange between Greece and Turkey after the Turkish War of Independence.
The upper floor contains exhibition spaces filled with ethnographic items including traditional clothing, kitchen tools, and personal chests belonging to exchanged populations.
The museum provides administrative services and educational programs on the ground floor, along with a gallery displaying photographs related to the population exchange.
The collection includes original copies of passports used during the population exchange, offering direct evidence of this demographic transformation between Greece and Turkey.
Location: Alaçam
Location: Samsun Province
Inception: 2010
GPS coordinates: 41.60556,35.59694
Latest update: April 20, 2025 00:57
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