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The 5 must-see museums in Baku
From Zaha Hadid’s white waves to medieval fortress walls — five spaces that tell Baku’s past and present. Each opens its own window onto th…
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From carpets to architecture, history to contemporary art — the five must-see museums of every city.
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Sheki · Museums
The 5 must-see museums in Sheki
From the UNESCO-listed Khan’s Palace to an ancient Albanian church — Sheki’s addresses of craft and history. This five fits the town’s arti…
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Museums — every address
This category holds 28 places in the directory — including everything that did not make the five.
Sheki 5
5.0
A living craft museum: watch masters assemble shebeke from thousands of pieces of wood and glass — without a single nail.
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4.6
The town’s chronicle from Silk Road trade to the Soviet era: coins, weapons and silk looms.
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4.4
The ancient Albanian church in Kish village: thousand-year walls, archaeological finds and mountain-village views.
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4.4
An 18th-century palace of nail-less shebeke windows and painted walls — the summit of Azerbaijani craftsmanship.
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3.8
The khan family’s lesser-known house: delicate murals, shebeke and a quiet courtyard — the palace experience without the crowds.
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Baku 18
4.8
UNESCO heritage: 40,000-year-old rock art, mud volcanoes and an open-air museum of the Stone Age.
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4.7
Zaha Hadid’s masterpiece: a building without a single straight line, contemporary art shows and Baku’s new symbol.
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4.6
A millennium of Azerbaijani literature in the magnificent building overlooking Fountains Square.
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4.6
Azerbaijan's stone sculpture and rock-art heritage shown in a restored 1901 power station by the sea; free entry.
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4.6
The world's first tanker museum, a 1957 Caspian tanker turned into interactive halls with VR, the engine room and the bridge.
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4.5
Baku’s most mysterious structure: a tower of unknown age, its legends, and an Old City panorama from the roof.
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4.5
National history inside oil baron Taghiyev’s mansion: rich collections and the interiors of 19th-century Baku’s bourgeoisie.
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4.5
Old City home of jazz-mugham pioneer Vagif Mustafazadeh, with his piano, photographs and recordings.
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4.5
The house where cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was born in 1927, with family belongings, letters and concert memorabilia.
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4.5
The home where the composer of the first Muslim-world opera lived 1915–1942, with his piano, desk and manuscripts.
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4.5
A Guinness-record collection: the world’s largest gathering of miniature books, inside the Old City.
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4.5
Open-air museum on Absheron with an old fortress tower, petroglyphs, traditional houses and live pottery and bread-baking demos.
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4.4
A building shaped like a rolled carpet holding the world’s richest collection of Azerbaijani rugs — history, knot by knot.
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4.4
The home of the Azerbaijani avant-garde: over 800 works from Sattar Bahlulzade to today.
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4.4
The richest state collection of European, Eastern and Azerbaijani painting, in two historic mansions.
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4.4
The 15th-century palace of the Shirvanshah dynasty — UNESCO heritage, carved stone and medieval quiet at the heart of the Old City.
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The oil boom told inside the Nobel brothers’ Baku residence: the story of the first oil millions.
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Contemporary art in a Soviet-era ship repair hall: bold shows and young Azerbaijani artists.
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Ganja 4
4.4
Archaeology and ethnography museum and park around the rebuilt gates of medieval Ganja on the old city site.
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The chronicle of ancient Ganja: archaeological finds, khanate-era objects and a thousand years of memory.
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A centre devoted to the poet Mahsati Ganjavi and her rubaiyat: poetry, history and a woman’s voice.
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Museum opened in 2014 beside the Nizami Mausoleum, devoted to the great poet's life and works.
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Gabala 1
4.3
Museum at the ruins of ancient Gabala, former capital of Caucasian Albania, displaying excavation finds.
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