Mehmetçik Lighthouse was built in 1856 by the French General Directorate of Lighthouses on a spur in the southernmost part of the Gallipoli Peninsula to guide military ships after the Crimean War.
In the exhibition titled "Scanning the Past" opened at the Mehmetçik Lighthouse in Seddülbahir village, it is possible to access information about the research carried out since 2017, information about the Çanakkale naval battles, ships belonging to the allied navy and the natural beauties of the underwater. Artifacts from the inventory of the Harbiye Military Museum Command are also exhibited here as witnesses of the struggle in the Dardanelles in 1915.
