Atatürk Museum, Historic house museum in Thessaloniki, Greece
The Atatürk Museum is a three-story birth house in Thessaloniki, Greece, serving as a memorial to the founder of modern Turkey. The pink facade and classic wooden doors lead into rooms furnished with late 19th-century pieces.
Built before 1870 by the Hacı Mehmet Foundation of Rhodes, the house passed through several owners before Ali Rıza Efendi rented it in 1878; the family lived here until his death in 1888. After the 1923 population exchange it went to the National Bank of Greece, and in 1935 the city council expropriated it for Turkey. It opened as a museum on 10 November 1953.
The house stands within a consulate garden and still carries its Ottoman character with pink painted walls and old wooden shutters. Visitors walk through narrow hallways and low-ceiling rooms that look as if a family lived there more than a century ago.
The house stands at 17 Apostolou Pavlou Street, beside the Turkish Consulate, and visitors pass through consulate grounds to reach it. The museum closed for restoration begun by TİKA in December 2024 and reopened on 9 November 2025. Inside, four ground-floor rooms lead up to the reception room, the mother's room and the birth room on the upper floors.
In the courtyard grows a pomegranate tree said to have been planted by Atatürk's father, Ali Rıza Efendi, not by the family in general. The house was registered as a "modern monument" by the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2011.
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