The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum is the first of its kind, and the Museum of Miniature Books is the only one of its kind.
The Azerbaijan Carpet Museum was the first museum to be “dedicated to the art of Carpet Weaving” in 1967. At that time, it was named Azerbaijan State Museum of Carpet and Folk Applied Arts.
The museum has about 10,139 exhibits, and it includes Flat Woven Carpets such as Shadda, Ladi and Palas. There are also Pile Carpets such as Guba-Shirvan, Tabriz and Karabakh. Carpet Products such as Jahas (camel’s headdress), Gashigdan (a carpet bag for spoons and rolling pins) and Duz Torbasi (salt bag) are also a part of the exhibit.
In 2014 the museum had a new building in the shape of a partly rolled carpet.
In 2002, Zarifa Salahova opened the only museum that is “dedicated to miniature editions of books,” and it is in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is called the Museum of Miniature Books, and it has over six thousand miniature books published in sixty-eight countries and various languages. It has religious, children and historical texts. The sizes of the books range from 3.4 inches to 0.25 inches.
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Museum of Miniature Books
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