Atatürk House is a modest but worthwhile stop in the city centre, preserved because Mustafa Kemal Atatürk stayed here during visits to Malatya. It is the kind of civic museum found across Turkey, small in scale but important to local memory.
Pair it with Hürriyet Park and the nearby central streets rather than crossing town just for this one building. It helps set Malatya in the national story, especially after the older Ottoman and Armenian layers around Battalgazi.