Azerbaijan Carpet Museum is 50: Roundtable on the theme “Textile Collections in Museums”
On November 16, 2017, the museum hosted a number of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum and the eve of the birthday of its founder, carpet artist and carpet art theorist Latif Karimov.
Roundtable “Textile Collections in Museums”, which brought together specialists from all over the country and from abroad was one of the anniversary events of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum. Before the commencement of the event, its participants visited the Alley of Honor, where they laid flowers on the graves of the national leader Heydar Aliyev and Latif Karimov, the founder of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum.
Fikret Babayev, the Head of the Cultural Institutions and Folk Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan made a speech at the opening of the roundtable.
The event was attended by employees of more than 20 museums of history and local lore museums of Azerbaijan, as well as employees of the capital museums ‒ the National Museum of Art, the National Museum of History and, of course, the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum.
Among the foreign guests were representatives of the Central Asian Crafts Support Association, the Dresden State Art Collections, the State Hermitage Museum, the Institute of Archeology and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Kharkov State University named V.N. Karazin.
The participants of the roundtable discussed the issues of storage, display, conservation, and restoration of carpet and carpet products, textile and traditional clothing. The speech of representatives of the Central Asian Crafts Support Association, who accompanied their performance with a small exhibition of Kyrgyz folk weaving artworks, should be noted.
At the event, it was decided that the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum will closely cooperate with regional museums in the field of proper attribution of textile exhibits, which is currently in great need.
