Silifke is a region which Atatürk loved, where he established a farm and formed the first agricultural credit cooperative together with the peasants and visited four times on different occasions.

The house where Atatürk stayed on his first Silifke visit on January 27, 1925 is a two storey masonary house at Saray section of the city, built on a 329 m² piece of land. The house which at that time belonged to Hacı Hulusi Efendi, the mayor, was later transferred to his inheritors.

In addition to its historical significance, it is a good example of civic architecture. Left in poor conditon for some years, it was taken up within the commemoration programme for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Atatürk, and expropriated by the General Directorate of Ancient Works and Museums of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1982. Restoration work started in 1983 and was completed in 1984. During 1985 - 1986 period The General Directrate of Ancient Works and Museums carried out furnishing and display arrangements and turned the lower floor into a community library for the district while the top floor became Atatürk House (museum- house).

This floor, with a cross shaped hall in the center, was arranged with a parlour opening to the hall, a sitting room and a connecting prayer room, Kitchen and a connecting work room. The museum is organized to reflect the characteristics of those years as well as the region, and artifacts of ethnographic value obtained from the environs of Silifke and the ethnography section of the Silifke Museum provided the materials used. The bedroom suit and dishes, which were previously donated by Sadık Taşucu, who was the owner of the house when Atatürk stayed during his 28 January 1925 visit, and the small gun with the inscription "Gazi M. Kemal" on it given to Sadık Taşucu by Atatürk as a gift and the first documents and pictures from the farm and the cooperative he founded are exhibited in the museum.

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