The idea
Architecture as metaphor
The new museum building opened in 2014 on Baku’s Seaside Boulevard. Its form literally repeats a rolled carpet: one edge of the “roll” rises upward, while ornamental bands run along the façade.
The idea is simple and strong: the museum looks like what it keeps. Designed by the Austrian architect Franz Janz, it quickly became one of the city’s landmarks.
The roll formSilhouette
A roll above the boulevard
The building’s curved “scroll” is visible from afar — from the sea, the boulevard and the city’s heights. Inside it opens into spacious halls where the carpets seem to unroll before the visitor.
Nearby are the park, the Ferris wheel and the promenade: the museum stands in the very heart of strolling Baku.
In brief
The building in numbers
2014year the new building opened
3main floors of exhibition
1of the symbols of modern Baku
“First you see a carpet the size of a house. Then you realise it is a museum.”jnews.az