The Museum Centre
of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism
of the Azerbaijan Republic

Art Gallery
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Art Gallery
Ceremonial Opening: 4 may 2010, 6 PM
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Art Gallery
Opening ceremony: 20 April, 6 pm
Organizer: Museum Center
Project initiator and exhibition curator: Liana Vezirova, Director of the Museum Centre...>>>

Art Gallery
Opening Ceremony: 4 December, 18:00
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Art Gallery...>>>

On May 21, in the Museum Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan with the offer of Moscow Bureau of UNESCO, jazz concert performed by the young band “Beetle Juice” was held. This event was devoted to the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and to the action «Spring in the Museum» which has been successfully realised each year by the Museum Center...>>>

An exhibition of visual arts, “Winter Harmony”, was held in Baku from 23-30 December 2008. This was the last stage of the great “Seasons” cycle, held in the gallery of the Museum Centre in Baku, in 2006. Represented in the show were both famous artists and younger ones who were just setting out on their creative path. The “Seasons” project was represented in November 2006 by the display, “Colours of Autumn”, whose conception aroused intense interest among both specialists and visitors, advancing as it did, far beyond the standard range of a seasonal exhibition. In March of last year, the cycle was embodied by the exhibition “Spring...>>>

Completion of the Azerbaijan-Norway International Project was held in the Museum Center of Azerbaijan and as a result of it there will be an exhibition «Azerbaijan- Norway: dialogue of impressions» opened on November 3, 2008, at 18:00 .An international educational project was dedicated to the exchange of experiences and knowledge between the museum professionals of the two countries and increase of their qualification. It was done in three stages : seminar in Baku, seminar in Stavanger and in Oslo and a final meeting in Baku...>>>

The exhibition “Impression of Summer” was opened at the Museum Centre of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on 30th June. This was the third exhibition of the Art Gallery’s “Seasons” project (the series will continue with a winter exhibition towards the end of the year). The function was organized jointly by the Gallery of the Museum Centre, the Department of Fine Art of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan. Over 200 works, by more than 50 artists, were presented for display...>>>

On 9 April 2008 the opening ceremony of Informational-educational center “The Russian museum: virtual branch” was held in the Assembly Hall of the Museum Center of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan.The participants of the opening ceremony were: Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism S. Mamedaliyeva, Deputy Director of State Russian Museum Mrs. I. M. Kuleshova, program specialist on culture of UNESCO Bureau in Moscow L. Moreva...>>>

Critics of the 90th named this time as a decade of crisis, confusion, decline in the art of Azerbaijani artists born in the period of the post-war hopes and grandiose plans, who had to live through Karabah events, disintegration of the power, change of modes, humiliation, unemployment and unclaimed ness, cheerless years of economics slump and the world did not seem cloudless...>>>

Klaus Wikrath, natively German, is a photo-painter in the third generation. His grandfather was engaged in landscape surveys, a father preferred a portrait and industrial landscape. Klaus, giving the contribution of domestic tradition, works and in a landscape genre, however much a matter of all his life is grace in any shape or form.
Life of Klaus Wikrath passes between three favorite his places on earth – in New York, Paris and Costa Rica. However all began from an own studio in Dusseldorf in 1975 and orders from the magazines of «Peter» and «Schtern»....>>>

An exhibition of visual arts: “Spring. Woman. Love.” was held in the Museum Centre Art Gallery from 15th to 25th March 2007. – The second in a series of seasonal displays at this exhibition venue (the ‘Seasons’ cycle began last autumn). Canvas paintings, sheets of graphics, sculptures, works of decorative fine art and also photographic compositions were presented...>>>

The “Colours of Autumn” Exhibition opened a cycle of exhibitions, united under the common theme of “Seasons”. As a rule, winter is the beginning of the year. But we began this cycle with autumn. I think it is quite clear why we chose autumn. From the history of world culture, we understand that autumn is the favourite time of year for most artists working in different fields of art. After the summer heat and relaxation of the holiday season, not a favourable time for hard work, autumn seems like a godsend as a time of active inspiration...>>>

16 May, 2006 - The official opening of the exhibition was held within the framework of a celebration of International Museum Day, with the participation of representatives from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism led by the Minister, Mr. Abulfaz Garayev. The exhibition combined two significant and crucial events in the world of Azerbaijani culture: a celebration of International Museum Day and the opening of the permanent exhibition in the Art Gallery of the Museum Centre, which has been functioning daily from 10:00 to 18:00 since 17 May 2006...>>>