Avrasya Anı Evi

Avrasya Memorial House

Avrasya Anı Evi
Avrasya Anı Evi
Established	1992
Location	Dario Moreno stret karataş İzmir, Turkey
Coordinates	38°24′33″N 27°07′03″E / 38.40917°N 27.11750°ECoordinates: 38°24′33″N 27°07′03″E / 38.40917°N 27.11750°E
Type	Memorial House
Owner	İzmir Municipality

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 38°24′33″N 27°07′03″E / 38.40917°N 27.11750°E 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