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President Ilham Aliyev inspects arrangement of exhibitions at new building of Carpet Museum VİDEO
Baku, December 2 (AZERTAC). President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today inspected arrangement of exhibitions at the new building of the State Museum of Azerbaijani Carpet and People Applied Arts.
The Head of State was informed that the museum was designed to organize exhibitions, prepare educational programs, protect intangible cultural heritage, develop international relations, prepare and implement joint projects. The Azerbaijani President also toured the building.
The museum currently stores a collection of more than 15,000 rare exhibits. Carpets with pile form the golden fund of the museum. Together with all compositions, they represent the seven main carpet-weaving schools of Azerbaijan. Apart from that, the museum also keeps carpets without pile, jewels and metal items, artistic embroidery, fabrics, national clothes and others.
The concept of the museum`s exhibition is different from ordinary exhibitions. The main carpet exhibits are hung from arched walls and their reflection can be seen from all the top floors. Thanks to this, most of the exhibition can be watched from all angles.
The five-storey building has working rooms, an automated storeroom, restoration workshops, a gift shop, a department working with visitors, an exhibition area, a 120-seat café, halls for presentations and discussions, an interactive information system, an auditorium for video and audio presentations.