MUSEUM OF THE WESTERN FRONT HEADQUARTERS
The Museum of the Western Front Headquarters occupies the edifice built in the Yemeniciler CarşısıMarketplace by the then Mayor, Bostan Bey, as a Council Service Building in the years 1904 - 5. During the War of Independence the Western Front Command was located here and much of the Great Offensive was planned in this building. It continued to be used as a council building until 1965 when it underwent renovation and re-opened on the 5th July 1966 as the “Museum of Atatürk and Ethnography”.
It was renovated again in 1981 when documents, photographs and various ethnographic pieces pertaining to Atatürk and his comrades-in-arms were put on display. On the 59th anniversary of the Great Offensive, August 24th 1981; it opened again as the Museum of the Western Front Headquarters.
It underwent further renovations and improvements in between the years 1988 and 2001 that brought it to the modern standard it has nowadays.
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