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It is a museum interested in modern art and located in the city of Baku, the antique was created to house the best works of sculpture and painting in Azerbaijan since the second half of the twentieth century and until the present, the exhibition is a collection of paintings and sculptures that represent the searches for the freedom of the human soul and for Azerbaijani culture. Everyday except Monday

The National Museum of Art of Azerbaijan is the largest museum of art in the State of Azerbaijan with more than 17,000 paintings, and the museum is currently located in the «Historical Buildings» established in the nineteenth century in the Palais de Boone near the Mariansky Sports Club. Everyday except Monday

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.

It is a palace dating back to the fifteenth century. Built by the rulers of Shirwan known as the Shirvanshahiyin, it was described by UNESCO as "one of the pearls of Azerbaijani architecture" dating back to the fourteenth century AD. This palace was the residence of the rulers of Shirwan, the ruling dynasty of northeastern Azerbaijan during the Middle Ages.

Known as home to rock carvings and mud volcanoes, there are nearly 700 mud volcanoes located around the world of which nearly 300 are located in this eastern part of Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea. The name of Gobustan has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name of the City of Culture and Rock Art for Landscapes, because it includes these volcanoes and also because it preserves thousands of inscribed rock stones dating back to the twelfth century BC.