Mübadele Evi, Görükle

Mübadele Evi is a museum opened in 2016 in the Görükle neighborhood of Nilüfer district, Bursa.

In Görükle, where the exchangees who came from Langaza, Old Kavala and Serres were settled during the Turkey‑Greece population exchange, the items that the exchangees carried on their backs, touched, used in their fields and homes, documents related to the exchange and their ethnographic objects, as well as oral history testimonies are exhibited.

It was created by Nilüfer Municipality and the Bursa Lausanne Exchangees Culture and Mutual Aid Association.

History

The building, opened to visitors as Mübadele Evi in 2016, was the residence of Miltiadis Trihoulidis before the exchange. After 1922, the house became the home of the couple Hasan Gültekin and Sıdıka Gültekin, who came from Kavala to Bursa with the exchange. In the building, after Hasan Gültekin, his son Ramazan Gültekin and his family lived there; the ground floor was used intermittently as a coffeehouse, butcher shop and tire shop until the 1990s.

The building was used by the Bursa Lausanne Exchangees Culture and Solidarity Association, founded in 2002. It was restored by Nilüfer Municipality in 2012‑2015. Opened in the 93rd year of the Turkey‑Greece population exchange, Mübadele Evi was awarded the "Implementation Award" by the Historic Cities Association in the same year.