Atatürk Museum

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Atatürk Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ατατούρκ, Mousío Atatúrk; Turkish: Atatürk Evi Müzesi, "Atatürk House Museum") is a historic house museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece.

Overview: The house is the birthplace of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born here in 1881 when Salonika was still part of the Ottoman Empire. It is a three-floor house with a courtyard on 17 Apostolou Pavlou Street, next to the Turkish Consulate. There are four rooms on the ground floor. On the 1st floor is the reception room, with European sofas, a large console table, and a chased brazier; a large sitting-room, with low banquettes around the walls; Kemal's mother's room, with a bed, a banquette, and a trunk; and the kitchen, equipped with contemporary cooking utensils. The most impressive room on the 2nd floor is the one in which Kemal was born, a large room with a banquette, his desk, and a large brazier. It faces another room, in which some of Kemal's personal effects from Ankara are displayed. These include formal dress, smoking requisites, cutlery, cups, and other items. All the documents relating to Kemal's schooldays have been hung on the walls. A pomegranate tree...