 Consequently, in April 2008, the Beşiktas Shipping Group launched a Euro 23 million renovation and restoration project.KA.BA Conservation of Historic Buildings and Architecture directed the project alongside the Metex Design Group and the entire renovation project is completed on September 1, 2010.A key attraction, the Atatürk Room 101 remains as a ‘Museum Room’, with many personal items and reading material of the Turkish nationalist leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk exhibited to the public.