Shusha Carpet Museum is the

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branch of the State Museum of Azerbaijani Carpets and Applied Art, established by the Order of the Ministry of Culture of the Azerbaijan SSR No. 502 of September 26, 1985 to study, preserve and live the traditions of Karabakh carpet weaving. The branch began its activity on May 19, 1987, in the 18th-century mansion belonging to General

Samad bey Mehmandarov Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov ( az, Səməd bəy Sadıx bəy oğlu Mehmandarov; October 16, 1855 – February 12, 1931) was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Imperial Russian Army and served as Minister of Defense o ...

. The branch had exhibited pile and weave carpets, carpet products, artistic embroidery, national costumes, jewelry and artistic metal, selected from the main fund of the Azerbaijan State Carpet and Applied Art Museum. The military conflict between

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and

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caused the branch to stop its activities in 1992. On February 29, 1992, 183 of the 246 exhibits (80 pile carpets, 35 weave carpets, carpet products, 29 pieces of embroidery and national clothing, 39 pieces of jewelry) of the Shusha branch were evacuated and transferred to the main fund of the museum. As of 2020, the Shusha branch is based within

Azerbaijan Carpet Museum Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum ( az, Azərbaycan Milli Xalça Muzeyi, formerly called the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum) is a museum located in Baku that displays Azerbaijani carpets and rugs with historical and modern weaving techniques and materi ...

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

. After Azerbaijan took back control of Shusha in the

2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement is an armistice agreement that ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. It was signed on 9November by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the Pre ...

, the museum announced plans to return to its original location in Shusha once the building is restored.

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