Museum
The Carpet Museum
The world's first carpet museum — founded in 1967, in its new boulevard building since 2014.
Go to the site
xalca-muzeyi.tut.az
A separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress The site is in progress. The domain is reserved; design and texts are under way.
How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
The museum was founded in 1967 and long occupied the Juma mosque in the Old City. In 2014 the collection moved to a new building on the boulevard whose form — by the Austrian architect Franz Janz — echoes a rolled-up carpet.
The holdings pass ten thousand items: pile and flat-woven carpets, embroidery, metalwork and jewellery. The display is arranged by weaving school — Quba, Shirvan, Ganja, Gazakh, Karabakh, Baku and Tabriz.
On the site
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01
Weaving schools
Seven regional traditions
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02
Patterns
How to read the symbols
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03
The building
The rolled-carpet design
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04
Visiting
Hours, tours, workshops
Related sites
Nizami Museum of Literature
The building by Fountain Square with six writers standing on its facade.
edebiyyat-muzeyi.tut.az
Opera and Ballet Theatre
The 1911 theatre building — the main address of Baku's musical stage.
opera.tut.az