Tekirdağ

Housed in the governor's mansion built 1928, this exhibits findings from Perinthos and numerous tumulii in the region. Admire the mummy of Thracian king Kersepleptes, found (along with his regalia) in a tumulus 12 km away. Upstairs is ethnography, with a "traditional Tekirdağ room". The garden of the museum has many ancient sarcophagi and gravestones of the city's once numerous Greeks, Armenians and Latins.

Francis II Rákóczi (1676–1735) was a Hungarian nobleman who led a failed rebellion against the Hapsburg empire. He fled to Poland (where he was smart enough to decline the offer of the crown), then rattled around England and France before settling in Ottoman Turkey. He spent his last 18 years in this house in Tekirdağ and a colony of other Hungarian emigres settled around him – best known is Kelemen Mikes (1690–1761). The house has been restored, not to that period but to 1906 when drawings of the interior were made. The Szekely Gate in front of the house commemorates his fellow exiles, of whom few other traces remain in the city. Rákóczi is buried in Košice, Slovakia, where a copy of this house has been erected.

Exhibits a collection of old Tekirdağ photographs donated by a member of the Greek family resident in this house before the local Greeks left for Greece in exchange for the Turks of Greece under a 1920s agreement between Greece and Turkey – many of the photos present scenes from the predating period.

A small museum exhibiting several paintings of İbrahim Balaban (1921–2019), whose works combine social realism with abstract figures. The museum is not constantly open, but you can find the staff from the Photography Museum for opening the door.

Namık Kemal (1840–1888) was a writer and political agitator, which got him exiled from Turkey three times: to Paris, then to Famagusta, finally to Chios where he died. The house museum is a replica of his birthplace.