The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum stands in the Baku seafront park on Mikayil Huseynov Street. The Austrian architect Franz Janz designed it, and the building is meant to look like a rolled carpet. Construction took over six years, and the new building opened on August 26, 2014. The article names no client, style or materials.
The museum was founded in 1967 in the Juma Mosque in Icheri Sheher, with a first exhibition in 1972. In 1992 it moved to the former Lenin museum. Its collection of over 10,000 items in seven groups includes pile and flat-woven carpets, costumes, ceramics and jewelry, mostly from the 17th to 20th centuries.
It offers Braille texts, tactile carpet samples, sign language tours and wheelchair access. It gained national status in 2019 and drew 122,143 visitors that year. The article gives no hours or prices.
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