Avrasya Anı Evi Explained

Avrasya Memorial House
Native Name:Avrasya Anı Evi
Native Name Lang:Turkish
Map Type:Turkey
Coordinates:38.4092°N 27.1175°W
Location:Darío Moreno street, Karataş İzmir, Turkey
Type:Memorial House
Owner:İzmir Municipality

Avrasya Anı Evi ("Eurasian Memorial House") is a small museum in İzmir, Turkey.

Geography

The museum is in the Karataş neighborhood of İzmir. At 38.4092°N 27.1175°W it is on the Darío Moreno street no 11 next to the big asansör (elevator) which connects the lower quarters of the city to the high quarters.[1]

The museum

Darío Moreno (1921–1968) was a well known Turkish musician of Jewish descent. The memorial house was actually his stepfather's house. Although Darío Moreno lived only a short period in this house during the 1940s, the popular name of the house is Darío Moreno's house.[2]

İzmir metropolitan Municipality decided to name the former 302 street which runs from the boulevard to asansör as Darío Moreno Street and a NGO named İzmir Kalkınma Platformu ("İzmir Development Agency" İZKA for short) established the museum. In 2009 two busts were erected; one of Darío Moreno and the other of Enrico Macias, an Algerian born French singer who visited the museum.[3]

References

  1. http://dmmuseum.com/sten.html Museum page
  2. Web site: Kentaşam page by Abdülkadir Hasman . tr . 2015-12-01 . 2016-01-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128231620/http://kentyasam.com/dario-moreno-kimdir-yhbrdty-3756.html . dead.
  3. Web site: Turkish English page about İzmir . 2015-12-01 . 2020-08-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200806092232/http://www.mornings-evenings.com/izmir-%E2%99%A5-smryna-%E2%99%A5/ . dead .