Shaki Museum of History and Local Lore

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This event is available as QR tickets or as physical tickets sold at city box offices. QR tickets will be activated on the day of the event. To use your QR tickets, you need to log into your personal account in the iTicket.AZ mobile application.
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*The student ticket category applies only to students studying within the Republic of Azerbaijan.

The Shaki Museum of History and Local Lore is a museum located in Sheki city of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The museum is named after the Azerbaijani pedagogue, writer and ethnographer Rashid bey Efendiyev.

The Shaki Museum of History and Local Lore was established under decision of Commissariat for Education in September 1925. In 1980, the museum moved to a building, which was built as a barracks in 1895.[1]

The total area of the museum is 924 m2 and 724 m2 of it are reserved for the exhibition halls. More than 5000 exhibits reflecting the history, culture, ancient art forms, ethnography and cuisine of Shaki are exhibited in the museum.Nearly 3,000 of them are exhibited in exposition rooms.There are also stands reflecting participation of Shaki people in Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), as well as in Afghanistan war and the first Karabakh war.

Open door is held on the first Sunday of May each year, which means visitors can enter the museum free of charge.

  • TICKETS PURCHASED FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOT REFUNDABLE OR EXCHANGEABLE.

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