Carpet Museum and Russian Museum of Ethnography eye cooperation
By Laman Ismayilova
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum signed a protocol of intentions to collaborate with the Russian Museum of Ethnography.
Within the next five years, close cooperation in the field of research, exchange of experience, organization of joint exhibition projects, as well as the exchange of information on the activities of museums, scientific and methodical literature are envisaged under the treaty, Trend Life reported.
The Russian Museum of Ethnography includes many exhibits that are of great importance for applied arts and carpet weaving in Azerbaijan, as well as for the country's history and culture. It is planned to attribute these exhibits, organize relevant exhibitions, publish joint catalogues.
Director of the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum, Chairman of ICOM National Committee Azerbaijan, Honored Worker of Culture Shirin Melikova noted that intensive relations with Russian museums are steadily expanding. As a result of further implementation of a number of mutual joint projects, cooperation will be further strengthened.
"We are doing a hard work to ensure that valuable exhibits of Azerbaijan`s culture and art, national carpets, stored in all museums of the world, including in Europe and Russia, were presented as samples of the cultural heritage of Azerbaijan. This is very important from the point of propaganda of our culture abroad," said Shirin Melikova.
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum established in Baku in 1967, being the first carpet museum in the world, is the very place that can familiarize all the interested with the unique examples of the national carpets.
The museum is home to one of the most extensive rug and carpet collections in the world.
A new carpet museum, designed in the form of a rolled carpet, opened in the Baku Seaside Park in 2014 and all carpets were transferred to this museum.
Today museum hosts many events, such as exhibitions, international symposiums, and conferences.
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum operates as the site for the comprehensive research of traditional carpet weaving art and its popularization within world culture.
The Russian Museum of Ethnography is one of the largest and richest museums in Russia. The museum includes a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography of more than 150 peoples of Russia and its neighbors.
The history of the Russian Museum of Ethnography began in 1902 when the Russian Emperor Nicholas II issued the special Edict No. 420, establishing the Russian Museum of the Emperor Alexander III.
The contemporary life of the Russian Museum of Ethnography includes exhibition activities as well as providing ethnological conferences and educational programs for students and children. The collections from our Museum travel around the world and are on display at the museums of America, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France and other countries.
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