The Atatürk Museum occupies an elegant neoclassical mansion on the Alsancak waterfront, originally built by a Levantine merchant in the 1870s. The building was used by Atatürk during his visits to İzmir and has been preserved largely as he left it — his personal rooms on the first floor, including the bedroom, study, library, and meeting room, are displayed with original furnishings.
The museum provides an unusually intimate view of Atatürk's personal surroundings, and the Levantine mansion itself — high ceilings, French furniture, Uşak carpets, crystal mirrors — says something important about the cosmopolitan İzmir that Atatürk knew and admired. Open Tuesday through Sunday.