The museum building was constructed in 1915 as a residence by Major Baha Bey, the Chairman of Military Service Office.

[1] The total area of the house and the yard is 1,290 square metres (13,900 sq ft).

In addition to the exhibition halls and offices, the building has a conference room and an art gallery.

The ethnographic items of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey include weapons, copper tools, stamps and embroidery.

There are also some belongings of Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk) who met his mother in this house in 1922.