Shusha Carpet Museum, Carpet museum in Shusha District, Azerbaijan

The Shusha Carpet Museum presents traditional Karabakh carpets with geometric patterns, floral motifs, and dense textures made from local sheep wool. The collection spans different style variations from this renowned weaving tradition.

Vardan Astsatryan founded the museum in 2011, and it opened to the public in 2013. A fund was set up in 2011 with support from donors in the United States, and in 2012 a building was provided by a donor from Moscow. On 29 October 2020 rocket fire damaged the buildings; on 1 November 2020 about 160 of roughly 300 carpets were evacuated to Yerevan.

The collection represents works from the Karabakh weaving school, where craftspeople use traditional patterns and colors passed down through generations. Visitors can see how regional techniques reflect themselves in the design of each carpet.

The museum's two buildings in Shusha were damaged by a rocket explosion on 29 October 2020 and it has been closed since the city changed hands. About 160 of the most valuable carpets were evacuated to Yerevan on 1 November 2020; the rest, 100–120 carpets and other artifacts, remained in Shusha. Part of the evacuated collection is now shown at the National Museum-Institute of Architecture after Alexander Tamanyan in Yerevan, with no permanent building of its own.

On 29 October 2020 a large rocket explosion during the shelling of Shushi damaged the museum buildings; on 1 November about 160 of the most valuable carpets and rugs were evacuated to Yerevan, while 100–120 carpets and other artifacts stayed behind in the city.