Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex — Attraction in Baku City

There are 3 exhibition sites in Qala, 4Azn each for entrances. 1. Don't expect to see the national treasures in the exhibition hall, 2. the open air museum is just a display of replicas and 3. the Castle is incomparable to the one in Mardakan. If you are a foreign visitor, save your time and money to other...

In 2008, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation created the Qala Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex in the open air to preserve the monuments in the territory of the Qala State History and Ethnography Museum and enrich the Preserve by bringing in archaeological finds discovered in Absheron.

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This is an open air museum at least when I visited. But what a gem! The rock carvings with animals and human beings were numerous and exquisite. There is even a stone circle and what I recognised as a Hunebed, found in the Netherlands. This was...