The Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture ( az, Azərbacan Musiqi Mədəniyyət Dövlət Muzeyi) was opened in 1967, in
Baku
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. The goal of the museum is the collection, storage, investigation and popularization of materials related to the
musical history
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of
Azerbaijan
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.
Exhibits
The museum has a collection size of more than 20,000 items. Among these exhibits are musical instruments such as the
tar
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,
kamancha
The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) ( fa, کمانچه, az, kamança, hy, Քամանչա, ku, کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, a ...
,
saz,
qaval,
qoshanaghara,
zurna
The zurna (Armenian language, Armenian: զուռնա zuṙna; Classical Armenian, Old Armenian: սուռնայ suṙnay; Albanian language, Albanian: surle/surla; Persian language, Persian: karna/Kornay/surnay; Macedonian language, Macedonian: з ...
, and
ney
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, and are rare instruments including the asa-tar and asa-saz. The collection also includes
gramophones, portable gramophones and
gramophone record
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s, and archives of
opera singers such as
H.Sarabski, F.Mukhtarov, M.Bagirov and others are included in this museum. In addition, there are music manuscripts, personal belongings, records, posters, programs, photos, works of visual arts, notes, and books in the collection.
The museum also runs the
House-Museum of Niyazi.
See also
*
List of music museums
External links
State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan at Google Cultural Institute
References
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Music museums
Musical instrument museums
1967 establishments in the Soviet Union
Museums established in 1967
Museums in Baku
Music organizations based in Azerbaijan