Carpet Museum
123a Neftcilə r prospekti, Bak, Azerbaijan
About the company:
Latif Kerimov Carpet Museum is located in the center of Baku opposite the seaside boulevard. It is considered to be the world’s first carpet museum.
The museum was founded in 1967. His new building was built in the form of a folded carpet. The purpose of the museum is to popularize the national heritage through exhibitions, conferences and other events dedicated to carpet weaving as one of the oldest types of decorative and applied art of the country.
In the Carpet Museum you can see works of art from Gabala, Guba, Kazakh, Erivan, Sheki and other regions of the country, which show the history of Azerbaijan.
The museum presents historical artifacts relating to the Bronze Age, as well as faience dishes of the XII century, national dishes of the XIX century, jewelry from various materials, weapons, carpets and carpets with various ornaments and plots. In total, the museum presents about a million carpet products.