MUSEUM OF CARPETS
The first museum specimens were discovered in Crete in the sixteenth century BC, and in ancient Rome and Greece in the third century. Museums were first established in Azerbaijan in the 1920s. In Azerbaijan, there are 212 museums. The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, founded on March 13, 1967, is one of these museums. This is the world’s first carpet museum, and it houses the most extensive collection of Azerbaijani carpets.
The exhibit is already stored in the museum fund, which includes seven collections such as “Pile”, “Pileless” carpets, “Carpet products”, “Art metal”, “Ceramics, glass, wood, paper”, “Fabric, clothing, embroidery” and “Jewelry”.
The museum houses rare items from the Bronze and Antiquity periods, as well as the early Middle Ages. The majority of his collections date from the XVII-XX centuries.
In 2017, the International Documentation Committee (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums awarded the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum the “Best Practice” award, as well as the “Best Museum in Europe – 2018” competition for “application of innovations in museum work with the public.”
