Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Absheron Region, Azerbaijan
4.5 (1.053 reviews) Sunday: 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Spent 2-3 hours Ranking #12 in Baku Speciality Museums
The place where history speaks loudly
Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum was established in accordance with the decree No. 130 of the Council of Ministers of the Azerbaijan SSR dated March 13, 1967. From 1967 to 1993, the museum was called the Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpet and Folk Applied Arts, from 1993 to 2014 – State Museum of Carpet and Applied Arts named after Latif Karimov, from 2014 to 2019 – Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, and from 2019 to the present – Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum. It was the first specialised museum of carpets in the world. The exhibition includes three floors: 1st floor: Development of Azerbaijan carpet and its role in traditions. 2nd floor: Azerbaijani carpetweaving schools. 3rd floor: Carpetweaving of the contemporary period.
Address
Mikayil Useynov, 28 The Seaside Boulevard, Baku 1001 Azerbaijan
Mobile
Website
http://azcarpetmuseum.az/en
Working hours
Monday :
Tuesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday : 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday : 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday : 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 1:21
User Ratings
4.5 based on (1.053 reviews)
Reviews
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5stacy558 5:00 PM Oct 25, 2021
Well Done Interesting Niche Museum
Although a carpet museum normally won't be an obvious item on our vacation to-do list, we were happy we went. The museum has a large collection of beautiful carpets. That being said, the museum isn't overwhelming and it is easy to walk around and quickly understand what you are looking at. We loved we could get a private guide on the spot for a reasonable price and loved even more that we could watch one or two women actually making carpets in the museum itself. Brilliant idea for the museum to do that because you can't really appreciate what goes into making the carpets unless you see how it is done.
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4Charles_and_Susan 5:00 PM Sep 27, 2022
Well - certainly lots of carpets ... with history.
Azerbaijan is proud of its carpet making heritage and you can certainly see that here. The building itself is supposed to look like a roll of carpet viewed from the end. Inside there are carpets of various styles and ages - all with information about where it's from, etc. We visited towards the end of a long day - it was interesting but maybe we weren't taking too much notice of each carpet by the time we got to the end.
