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By Laman Ismayilova

The conference of Azerbaijan’s National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has kicked off in Baku, Trend Life reported.

The event was attended by the director of the National Museum of History, Naila Velikhanli, the director of Azerbaijan National Museum of Art, Chingiz Farzaliyev, the director of the Shirvanshah's Palace Complex, Rena Rzayeva, and others.

Addressing the event, the director of Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, the chairman of the Azerbaijan National Committee of ICOM, Shirin Malikova spoke about the 24th General conference of ICOM, held on July 3-9 in Milan.

He also shared plans of the National Committee for 2017-2018.

The meeting featured the presentation of ICOM`s new logo and the preview of the upcoming conference in Kyoto that will be held in 2019.

Some statistics were made public during the meeting.

The Azerbaijani National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) was established by the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan in 1993. From its first days, Azerbaijani museums created close relationships with the world’s museums in order to popularize Azerbaijani cultural heritage.

Representatives from such national museum institutions as Azerbaijani State Museum of Arts (named after R.Mustafayev), Azerbaijani Carpet and Applied Art State Museum (named after L.Kerimov), S.Vurgun House-Museum, “the Shirvanshah Palace Complex” State Historical-Architectural Preserve Museum, Musical Culture State Museum, and Art Gallery participated in conferences, workshops, trainings etc. in Paris, Stavanger, Melbourne, Barcelona, Seoul, Washington, Shanghais, Vienna and others.

The National Committee received over ten grants from the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation and UNESCO with the aim of improving museum work in Azerbaijan.

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