It is located in the district of Şişli, on the European side of Istanbul, Turkey.

Mustafa Kemal rented the house after returning from the Syrian Front and lived there with his mother Zübeyde, sister Makbule and adopted son Abdurrahim.

[1] He lived there until May 16, 1919, the day he sailed on the ship Bandırma to Samsun, on his way to the headquarters of the Ninth Army Troops Inspectorate in Erzurum.

[2] The house was purchased in 1928 by the Municipality of Istanbul and some of Atatürk's personal belongings were stored there.

The museum houses personal belongings of Atatürk like clothes and collections, other than historical documents, photographs and paintings of his lifetime.