The State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan

The State Museum of Azerbaijani Musical Culture was founded in 1967 Main

objectives and policies of the Museum: collection, preservation, study,

popularization and reactivation of the materials related to the history of the

Azerbaijani music.

There are more than 60 thousands exhibits collected in the museum fund.

Among them are such Azerbaijan national musical instruments

as tar, kamancha, saz, daf, goshanaghara, zurna, ney as well as other musical

instruments with specific features - cane-tar, cane-saz. Furthermore, the

museum's collection contains gramophones, gramophone records, musical boxes, original music manuscripts (scores) of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the founder of

the Azerbaijan professional music, Bulbul, the founder of the national

professional vocal art, and the famous composers Gara Garayev, Fikret

Amirov, and other distinguished music figures, personal belongings of the

prominent musicians, posters, playbills, photographs, audio and video records,

fine art exhibits, sheet music, books and other materials. All of them are

valuable samples of the Azerbaijan national musical culture.