Azerbaijan Carpet Museum facts for kids
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| Established | 1967 |
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| Location | Mikayil Huseynov Street 28, Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Type | Museum |
| Public transit access | Add→ Icheri Sheher metro station |
The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan Milli Xalça Muzeyi) is a special museum in Baku, Azerbaijan. It shows off beautiful Azerbaijani carpets and rugs. You can see how they were made long ago and how they are made today. This museum has the biggest collection of Azerbaijani carpets anywhere! It first opened in 1967 and moved to a cool new building in 2014.
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History of the Museum
The museum started in 1967. Its first home was the Juma Mosque in Icheri Sheher, an old part of Baku. This mosque was built in the 1400s and fixed up in the 1800s. The museum's first show was in 1972.
Later, in 1992, the museum moved to a different building. This building is now called the Baku Museum Center. The museum's collection was named to honor a famous carpet designer, Latif Karimov.
In 2010, people started planning a brand new building just for the museum. It was finished in 2014 and opened on August 26. When it opened, it was called the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum.
The Unique Building
The museum building itself is very special. It looks like a giant, rolled-up carpet! An Austrian architect named Franz Janz designed it. It took more than six years to build this amazing structure.
What's Inside the Collection?
The museum has over 10,000 different items. You can see:
- Old pottery and metal items from the 1300s.
- Jewelry from the Bronze Age.
- Carpets and carpet pieces from the 1600s to the 1900s.
- Traditional clothes and embroidery.
- Modern art pieces.
The museum also teaches about carpets and art. They have classes and a book store. You can buy books about Azerbaijani crafts and carpet art there.
A special part of the museum shows items from the Shusha Museum of History. These items include 600 carpets that were saved from the city of Shusha before it was captured in 1992. This special exhibit is called "Burned Culture." In 2022, the museum added a new carpet called "Lampa," which was made in Shusha in the 1930s.
Exhibitions Around the World
The museum does a lot of research and helps the public learn. Every year, they put on shows in Azerbaijan and with other countries. They also print books about carpets.
The museum has shown its carpets in over 30 countries! This includes places like France, Germany, England, Japan, and the Netherlands. In 1998, the museum took part in a UNESCO exhibition in Paris. This show was about a famous poet named Fuzûlî. In 1999, they showed carpets and folk art for the 1,300th anniversary of the Book of Dede Korkut. They displayed copper jugs, mugs, buckets, and saddlebags.
See also
- Azerbaijan State Museum of Art
- Azerbaijan State Museum of History
