Shusha Museum of History

Reconstruction works in the center of culture were carried out by the employees of the art-production workshop that organizes museums and exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture. Three departments related to the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are created in the museum.

In the museum, rare photos reflecting the history of Shusha city, documents from the 19th and early 20th centuries, schemes, models and photographs of historical houses built in Shusha in the 18th and 19th centuries were exhibited. Here there were interesting stands and exhibits about well-known Azerbaijani intellectuals, educators, singers, musicologists and writers who were born and lived in the city of Shusha. In the department of decorative and applied art, valuable art objects, buckets, pot sets, pottery products, carpets, rugs, and artistic textile samples woven in Shusha and surrounding villages were stored. Materials collected in connection with M.P.Vagif's jubilee were also exhibited in the museum.

In the museum, priority is given to moments related to the creation of the Karabakh Khanate. In 1981, 2792 exhibits were stored in the museum's exhibit fund. In 1980, 500 more exhibits were added to the museum serving 53,000 people. Later, the funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture, as well as the number of exhibits voluntarily presented to the museum by the population increased to 5,500. Of these, 3,500 were valuable exhibits belonging to the main fund, and 2,000 to the auxiliary fund. The museum exhibited the paintings of the Russian artist Vasily Vereshchagin while he was in Shusha in 1864, and an unexploded 43-kilogram shell during the attack of Agha Muhammad Shah Qajar.