Schuscha Carpet Museum

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Carpet museum in Shusha
Glance into the showroom
The Schuscha art center with art gallery and carpet museum

The Shusha Carpet Museum ( Armenian Շուշիի գորգերի թանգարան ) is a museum for antique carpets and carpet weaving from Artsakh . They are known as oriental carpets . The museum is located in the city of Shusha in the Republic of Artsakh ( Azerbaijan ), was founded in 2011 and opened in 2013.

prehistory

Carpet art from the Armenian-Azerbaijani region has been known since ancient times. One of the oldest carpets in the world comes from Armenia. Historians and early travelers pointed out the quality and the wealth of colors and patterns. From the second half of the 19th century, Şuşa and the surrounding areas developed into a handicraft center for carpet weaving. Even before the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the military administration of Shusha by Armenia there was already a folklore carpet collection from which the then head brought together around 600 copies in 1992 secretly to Azerbaijan, where she was rescued from war Cultural Property ( "Burnt Culture") in Azerbaijan Carpet Museum of Baku can be seen.

Today's museum

Vardan Astsatryan is the founder of today's carpet museum in Shusha. He succeeded in building up a new collection from villages in Armenia and Artsakh as well as through purchases in European countries. A museum foundation was established in 2011, with the Armenian Karo Sargsyan in particular making a two-storey building the seat of the museum possible in 2012. The building was built between 1828 and 1829 and housed a. a. the printing house of the Spiritual Inspection of Karabakh Diocese and was also used as the Armenian Diocesan School, then as a profane school. From 2012, previously the Sargsyan Gallery, the building on Ghasantschezoz Street was rededicated into the Shusha Art Center (Shushi Art Center, supported by the organization of the same name), which has an art gallery on the first floor. The building shared by the art center and the carpet museum is registered as a cultural monument under the number NK3 / 146. The carpet museum opened in 2013.

The permanent exhibition on the ground floor shows around 120 carpets, including the dragon, eagle and snake carpets known for their ornaments. Other motifs show the fight between phoenix and dragon, garden and flower motifs, each of which has its own name. The museum's holdings are given as around 300 rugs of Armenian carpet art from the 17th to the 20th century, with more modern motifs from the modern era. The collection also includes carpets from Turkmenistan or Afghanistan, as well as other artifacts, mostly household items. Badly damaged carpets are being restored in the museum.

Examples from the collection

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Web links

Commons : Shusha Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carpet museum opens in Shushi . In: PanARMENIAN.Net . (English, panarmenian.net ).
  2. ↑ Baku's National Carpet Museum, Azerbaijan: The Karabakh Collection. In: touristlink.com. 2010, archived from the original on July 11, 2010 ; accessed on March 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b Carpets Museum in Shushi . In: Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations . December 5, 2017 (English, hushardzan.am [accessed March 4, 2018]).
  4. ^ Carpet museum opens in Shushi. In: news.am. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .

Coordinates: 39 ° 45 ′ 24.2 "  N , 46 ° 45 ′ 12.7"  E