The Museum Centre, Cultural museum building on Neftchilar Avenue, Baku, Azerbaijan.
The Museum Centre is a building with multiple exhibition halls on Neftchilar Avenue featuring marble floors and large windows. The halls display regional art collections in a bright and open environment.
The Baku branch of the Lenin Museum was founded on 4 August 1954 on the basis of the Stalin Museum of the History of Bolshevik Organisations and opened to the public in 1955. Its new building, designed by architect Hasan Majidov for Lenin's 90th birthday, was erected in 1957 on the site of Petrov Square and opened in 1961. After the USSR dissolved in 1991, the building passed to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Culture and became the Museum Centre.
The building displays traditional Azerbaijani crafts like regional carpets, ceramics, and metalwork that have been passed down through generations. You can see the techniques and patterns that local artisans still use today in their workshops.
The halls are bright and easy to navigate, with large windows providing natural light throughout. You can move at your own pace and spend as much time as you want in the exhibition areas.
The Art Gallery on the fourth floor hosted its first exhibition in 1961, dedicated to the first human spaceflight. In the late 1980s the Komsomol Museum moved in and blocked the upper skylights; the gallery only regained its original appearance in 1991.
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