It is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan and one of the largest cities located in the Caucasus region. The city is considered a scientific, cultural, industrial and commercial center in Azerbaijan. The city blends with a Western European cultrure and, on the other hand, an Eastern Islamic culture.
The museum works in the palace of the famous oil owner and philanthropist Haji Zain al-Abidine Tajiyev who is a wealthy Azerbaijani from Baku, was a benevolent and generous man, served as an advisor to the Russian Empire and is the founder of the first girls' school in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus (Tajyev Girls' School), the National History Museum of Azerbaijan consists of 9 rooms: Tajiev's private office, oriental living room, library, dining room, billiards room, roundabout, dressing room and bedroom.
The museum displays various books, documents and manuscripts, as well as cultural and material models of antiquity, medieval, paintings and sculptures. The National Museum of Literature of Azerbaijan in the name of Nizami Kanjawi consists of thirty exhibition halls, ten main sections and two regional branches. His role lies in the work of collecting, researching and storing scientific and other materials on Azerbaijani literature and culture, and displaying these materials in exhibitions that are the main objective of the museum of his works.