Alaçam Population Exchange Museum

There are very beautiful works and it is really remarkable that it is the first exchange museum in the world. Those who are interested in history can go. The guide person there was very interested.

We have two exchange museums. One is Çatalca and the other is Alaçam. This place is bigger than the other one. Nice building. I can tell you both. Unfortunately, there is not much resources for the exchange. There are no survivors. The children of the Ottoman Empire are scattered there. The people who loaded the weight of the war. Each of them has a separate story, and I wish they were compiled and collected. I wish these pains will not happen again.

This is after the exchange agreement between Turkey and Greece from Turkey from greece style of life is a beautiful museum and providing information about the culture they bring.

It was built in 1897 at the request of non-Muslims and Muslims as a school providing education in a new way. Later it was used as a military service branch. The museum, which presents the goods of the exchanges and information about the exchange in a beautiful way to the visitors, is located in the Alaçam urban protected area. There are decorations on the front and roof of the building, which was built in a masonry structure. There are cross and crescent shaped figures on the iron casting door. There are many historical mansions around the building. The majority of the more than 100 historical buildings are large mansions with gardens. There are many historical fountains, 1 Turkish bath and 1 historical mosque in the region.

Alaçam Exchange Museum, where ethnographic artifacts such as daily use items, documents and photographs brought by our exchanged citizens, who were subjected to immigration as per the Treaty of Lausanne, are exhibited, is the first exchange museum of Turkey.

Alaçam Exchange Museum is a museum located in the Alaçam district of Samsun. The museum, which contains ethnographic items such as daily belongings, documents and photographs of the refugees who settled in Samsun with the Turkey-Greece population exchange, is the first museum with a population exchange theme in Turkey.[1] The museum, which is open every day between 8:00 and 17:30,[2] is visited by more than 10 thousand people a year.[1] The building, which is now converted into a museum, was built in the last quarter of the 19th century to be used as a primary school, and was taken over by different institutions in the following years.[2] The building, which was restored as Samsun Special Provincial Administration in 2010, was opened to use as a museum by Samsun Metropolitan Municipality on April 16, 2016 with the contributions of Alaçam Exchange and Balkan Turkish Culture Research Association.[2] Its official opening was made on September 18, 2012 by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ertuğrul Günay.[2]

With the additional protocol to the Treaty of Lausanne signed on July 24, 1923, the first official forced migration in history took place and nearly two million people had to leave their lands where they were born and raised. This cute and boutique museum, built in memory of this exchange, is also the first exchange museum in Turkey. This building, in which the museum is built, is an old public building that was built as Primary School and later served different services.