[3] The museum's building was originally built as a masonry mansion in 1875 by Salih Efendi, Director of Defter-i Hakani Senedat (Recorder of deeds).

[4] Nigâr Hanım, an enlightened woman and a poet of the period who married Salih Efendi's son, resided in this mansion in the first years of her marriage and intermittently thereafter.

[1] A cinema studio was established on the ground floor, where documentary films were shot to strengthen cooperation between the army and the people.

After the First World War, when the Allies officially occupied Istanbul, the Health Museum's building was seized by Italian soldiers.

The museum was then established in 13 provinces, including Ankara, Aksaray, Bursa, Urfa, Ordu, Trabzon, Edirne, Konya, Giresun.