Avrasya Anı Evi

Name sign of "Dario Moreno Street" in Izmir, Turkey.

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

Geography

The museum is in the Karataş neighborhood of İzmir. At 36°24′33″N 27°07′03″E / 36.40917°N 27.11750°E / 36.40917; 27.11750 it is on the Dario 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

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

İzmir metropolitan Municipality decided to name the former 302 street which runs from the boulevard to asansör as Dario 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 Dario Moreno and the other of Enrico Macias, an Algerian born French singer who visited the museum.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Museum page
  2. ↑ Kentaşam page by Abdülkadir Hasman (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Turkish English page about İzmir
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