Azerbaijan Carpet Museum to host Family Festival
By Laman Ismayilova
Carpet Museum, the most visited art museum in Baku, will host "Family Festival" on June 25-26, Trend Life reported.
The festival is organized with support of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Culture and Tourism under the initiative of children's museum under the Carpet Museum. The curator is Asli Samadova.
The event program will meet interests of different age groups.
Guests will have a chance to get acquainted with the history of Azerbaijani carpets and decorative applied art, as well as to observe the process of carpet weaving.
In addition, festival will feature various interesting competitions and excursions. Young visitors will enjoy a special program, prepared by Museum staff.
Bright, colored and unique Azerbaijani carpets are well-known all over the world for their quality and high artistic value.
The country has seven carpet producing regions including Baku, Shirvan, Guba, Tabriz, Karabakh, Ganja and Gazakh and each of them had its own technology, typical patterns and colors.
Antique Azerbaijani rugs are the honorary "residents" at the White House, State Department, and every important museums in the world including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louvre, Victoria and Albert Museum, Vatican, and the Hermitage.
Amazing and fantastic carpets of Azerbaijan represent a real mystery, leading one inside the fairy tales full of majestic feelings. In this context, Salahov's works are true reflection of this wonderful fairy world...
Azerbaijan Carpet Museum displays Azerbaijani carpets and rug items of various weaving techniques and materials from various periods. It is named after Latif Karimov and has the largest collection of Azerbaijani carpets in the world.
The collection of the museum includes over 10,000 items of ceramics, metal works of 14th century, jewellery from the Bronze Age, carpets and carpet items from 17th-20th centuries, national garments and embroidery, and applied art works of modern age.
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