Established 1967 (1967) Website Museum website | Collection size more than 20,000 | |
Location Azerbaijan, Baku, Rashid Behbudov Street 5 | ||
The Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture (Azerbaijani: Azərbacan Musiqi Mədəniyyət Dövlət Muzeyi) was poened in 1967, in Baku. The goal of the museum is the collection, storage, investigation and popularization of materials related to the musical history of Azerbaijan.
Exhibits
The museum has a collection size of more than 20,000. Among these exhibits are musical instruments such as the tar, kamancha, saz, qaval, qoshanaghara, zurna, and ney, and are rare instruments including the asa-tar and asa-saz. The collection also includes gramophones, portable gramophones and gramophone records, and archives of opera singers such as H.Sarabski, F.Mukhtarov, M.Bagirov and others are included in this museum. In addition, there are music manuscripts, personal belongings, records, posters, programs, photos, works of visual arts, notes, and books in the collection.