The Writers' Union
A literary institution running since 1934: congresses, journals, arguments.
yazicilar-birliyi.tut.az
Museum
The Carpet Museum
The world's first carpet museum — founded in 1967, in its new boulevard building since 2014.
Go to the sitexalca-muzeyi.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress
How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
The museum was founded in 1967 and long occupied the Juma mosque in the Old City. In 2014 the collection moved to a new building on the boulevard whose form — by the Austrian architect Franz Janz — echoes a rolled-up carpet.
The holdings pass ten thousand items: pile and flat-woven carpets, embroidery, metalwork and jewellery. The display is arranged by weaving school — Quba, Shirvan, Ganja, Gazakh, Karabakh, Baku and Tabriz.
Photo: SwissTraveller · CC BY-SA 4.0
On the site
- 01Weaving schoolsSeven regional traditions
- 02PatternsHow to read the symbols
- 03The buildingThe rolled-carpet design
- 04VisitingHours, tours, workshops
Related sites
Opera and Ballet Theatre
The 1911 theatre building — the main address of Baku's musical stage.
opera.tut.az
