Kuva-Yi Milliye Museumvisitor guide.

The museum building was constructed in 1840 as the mansion of Giridizade Mehmet Pasha, Treasurer of Karesi Sanjak. Following the occupation of İzmir on May 15, 1919, citizens of Balıkesir assembled in this mansion on May 16, 1919, resolving to launch armed resistance in Western Anatolia; it subsequently served for years as headquarters of the II Corps Command. Used as municipal offices from 1947 to 1988, the building was restored and opened on September 6, 1996, as Balıkesir Kuva-yi Milliye Museum. Across two floors, the ground floor is dedicated to heroes who spearheaded the founding of the Kuva-yi Milliye in Balıkesir and to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Historic resolutions adopted by congresses and resistance founders, personal effects, photographs, and wax figures of Atatürk and his wife Latife Hanım are displayed here. The second floor exhibits archaeological and ethnographic artifacts chronologically according to provenance, reflecting the region's millennia-long heritage from prehistoric times to the present. Galleries bearing the names of ancient cities located within Balıkesir—Cyzicus, Adramytteion, Daskyleion, and Antandros—feature artifacts uncovered during systematic and salvage excavations in these centers. DOWNLOAD MUSEUM BROCHURE NEARBY MUSEUMS TAKSIYARHIS MONUMENT MUSEUM BANDIRMA MUSEUM