Mubadele House

The House of Exchange, located in the Gorukle district of Nilufer Municipality, is a museum that examines and displays local history and folk culture, and also represents two communities. These two communities are Greeks and Turks living in the same settlement (Görgülü village) before and after the War of Independence. Although the war and migration that took place between 1922 and 1924 formed important sections in Turkish and Greek national history discourses, we tried to present the narration of the museum's exhibition based on personal testimonies, focusing on certain communities and a particular place, following the non-nationalist, international academic historiography. We also aimed to present the narratives (from the testimonies of the Turks and the Greeks) in certain areas such as the rural economy and especially the cosmetics sector, culinary culture, clothing, entertainment, marriage, birth and folk worship practices. In the House of Exchange, the history of a particular place and the memory of the old and new population of the population are preserved and shared.