AZERBAIJANI NATIONAL CARPET MUSEUM

Exhibitions

Exhibition Abiding Values
1 June 2017
Between the Republics of Azerbaijan and Serbia are social and political relations, as well as wide cooperation in the field of culture. The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum and the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade signed a five-year Memorandum of Cooperation in the areas of museum activities and the safeguarding of cultural heritage. Due to the Memorandum, at the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum was held an exhibition of marvellous Pirot kilims from the collection of Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade on October 2016.
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The opening ceremony of solo exhibition Tesaduf by Inna Kostina
14 April 2017
This year, on April 14 at the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum was held the solo exhibition Tesaduf by the Azerbaijan Honored Artist Inna Kostina. The exhibition featured 48 batik examples. These are the artist's works in a series of paintings Phoenix and Tesaduf, made in the technique of hot and cold batik.
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Exhibition “Woven in Hungary”
17 March 2017
On March 17, 2017 the opening ceremony of the tapestry exhibition Woven in Hungary was held at the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum within the framework of the project Hungarian Days.
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Regional seminar “Jewelry Art in the Museum Space: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”
25 January 2017
On January 25-27, 2017 with the joint organization of the National Committee of the ICOM Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, the National Committee of ICOM Georgia, and Museum of Fine Arts named after P.S. Gamzatova, (Makhachkala, Russia) was held regional seminar Jewelry Art in the Museum Space: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
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The Shusha branch of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum
24 January 2017
The Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan SSR established the Shusha branch of the Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpet and Applied Art under order №502 on September 26, 1985 to study, protect, and save the traditions and art of ancient Karabakh carpet weaving.
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Collection history
19 January 2017
In acquisition of collections and the further development of Azerbaijan Carpet Museum was attended by outstanding scientists of the country: academicians Rasim Efendiyev and Teymur Bunyadov, Honored Artist and the first director of the museum Aziz Aliyev,
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