House Museum of Bulbul ( az, Bülbülün ev muzeyi) or Memorial Museum of Bulbul ( az, Bülbülün xatirə muzeyi) is a

historic house museum A historic house museum is a house of historic significance that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a ...

of famous Azerbaijani Soviet singer

Bulbul The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical As ...

. The memorial museum was created in 1976 on the personal initiative of

Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...

and the museum had a ceremonial opening in 1982. The museum is located in Bulbul 15, Sabail,

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History

The Memorial Museum of Bulbul was created in 1976 on the personal initiative of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of

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. In this apartment,

has lived and worked since 1937 until the last days of his life, until September 26, 1961. On July 1, 1977, his wife - Mammadova was appointed as the director of the Memorial Museum of Bulbul. On June 10, 1982, the Memorial Museum of Bulbul in

had a ceremonial opening.

Exposition

The museum was placed in 4 exposition rooms. 3 rooms are kept as a souvenir, one is an exhibition room. The museum collects documents and materials about Bulbul's creative, scientific, pedagogical, social activities. Among them there are original manuscripts,

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shafts, photographs, notes, books, household items, artwork and personal belongings. Branches: House-Museum of Bulbul in Shusha. But since 1992, after the capture of Shusha in 1992 by

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n forces, it has stopped its activity.Azerbaijan:Cultural Heritage: Shusha Branch of House-Museum of Bulbul
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Gallery

File:Bulbul 36.jpg, Interior of the Bulbul's Memorial Museum. This room was an office. It was in this room that new concert programs were invented, new operas were created, new thoughts on the development of Azerbaijani art ripened. File:Bulbul 35.jpg, Interior of the Bulbul's Memorial Museum. Exhibition room. The subject of the room is an expression of the creative path of Bulbul from the popular khanende to the master of professional vocal art. File:Bulbul 22.jpg, Interior of Bulbul"s cabinet. Personal library of Bulbul. Memorial Museum of Bulbul. File:Bulbul 31.jpg, Exhibits of the memorial museum of Bulbul. Accessories for stage makeup. File:Bulbul 4.jpg, Interior of the bedroom of the Bulbul home-museum. The sleeping room is preserved in the form it was during Bulbul's lifetime. File:Bulbul 32.jpg, Exhibits of the memorial museum of Bulbul. Bulbul in the role of Duke in the opera '' Rigoletto''. The poster of the opera ''Rigoletto''.

References

{{Commons Category, House-museum of Bulbul Museums in Baku Museums established in 1976 Biographical museums in Azerbaijan