Museum of Miniature Books / Baku, Azerbaijan
One of the unique cultural places of global significance, the Museum of Miniature Books has been functioning in Baku since 2002. The inside area of 145 sq.m. and 37 glass cases display over 7000 books published in more than 67 countries around the world.
The Museum of Miniature Books was included in the Guinness Book of the World Records as the largest collection of miniature books in the world. The current standards of miniature books are 75X75 mm and below. Today, the Museum has 2913 books of such dimensions. Many of the books are not bigger than 100X100 mm.
The creator of the Museum Zarifa Salakhova has been collecting miniature books for almost 30 years. The collection contains handwritten, facsimiled, reprinted, and unique editions.
In the Museum you can also see the collection of micro-books, such as the micro-publications of the Toppan Publishing House (Japan) – one book format is 0.75x0.75 mm and three in the size of 2x2 mm.
The Museum collection also contains four micro-books in the format of 3.5x3.5 mm named ‘Olympic Oath’, ‘Our Father’, ‘Love’ and ‘Liberty Bell’ published in Munich in 1964 and many other books of different genres.
Some exhibits of the Museum have to be mentioned particularly, such as Koran (17th c.), a Catholic prayer book in Czech language (New York, 1887), the New Testament with color illustrations (London, 1915), the ‘Prayers of St. Anne and St. Francis’ uttered in 1540 and presented by the Vatican Library in facsimile edition with a silver case.
Location: Old City, Baku, Azerbaijan
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Baku Museums//The Museum of Miniature Books
National Museum of History of Azerbaijan is the largest museum in Azerbaijan, located in Baku, in the former mansion of Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev. It was founded in 1920 and opened to a visitor in 1921. The building of the Museum was built in 1893–1902. The Italian Renaissance-style mansion is immense and takes up an entire city block. There are four floors in some parts of the building. It was designed by Polish architect Józef Gosławski. The museum has more than 2000 exhibits and includes the following departments: Modern history department, Ethnography department, Department of the ancient and medieval history of Azerbaijan, Scientific excursion department, Laboratory for the restoration of museum exhibits, Fund of Numismatics: Including the collection of Yevgeni Pakhomov, Art design group, Library
Museum of Modern Art– The museum was built at the initiative of the First Lady of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva and opened on 20 March 2009. It was funded by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, of which the First Lady is head. The foundation has also created projects with the Louvre Museum and the Palace of Versailles. The museum is intended as a focus for an “eco-cultural zone” conceived of by Thomas Krens, former director of the Guggenheim Foundation, which will also include a white-sand beach, a Frank Gehry skyscraper, and a walkway that projects out over the Caspian Sea. The museum does not have fixed subject areas. The architectural concept of the museum avoids halls with corners and has open passages and walls that meet at different angles, creating a multidimensional perspective of exhibits. Conspicuous metallic structures and the use of the color white unite all parts into a single “moving abstract structure.” The chief designer of the museum is the artist Altay Sadikh-zadeh; the architect of the building is Jean Nouvel.
Carpet Museum– was created in 1967, but its new building was constructed in 2014. Museum displaysAzerbaijani carpets and rug items of various weaving techniques and materials from various periods. It has the largest collection of Azerbaijani carpets in the world. It moved to a new building on the Baku’s seafront park during 2014 from its former location on Neftchiler Avenue. At the time of establishing, it was the only museum that was dedicated to the art of carpet weaving. The main purpose of the creation of the museum was to store, research, and demonstrate unique examples of the carpet weaving art, which are Azerbaijan’s national heritage. The initiator of the museum was Latif Karimov – an outstanding scientist and carpet weaver, the founder of the science of Azerbaijan Carpet Weaving Art, artist and teacher, author of the fundamental work Azerbaijani carpet.
The Complex of Shirvanshahs Palace– 15th-century palace built by the Shirvanshahs and described by UNESCO as “one of the pearls of Azerbaijan’s architecture”. It is located in the Inner City of Baku, Azerbaijan and, together with the Maiden Tower, forms an ensemble of historic monuments inscribed under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments. The complex contains the main building of the palace, Divanhane, the burial-vaults, the shah’s mosque with a minaret, Seyid Yahya Bakuvi’s mausoleum (the so-called “mausoleum of the dervish”), and south of the palace, a portal in the east, Murad’s gate, a reservoir and the remnants of a bathhouse. Earlier, there was an ancient mosque, next to the mausoleum. There are still ruins of the bath and the lamb belongs to the west of the tomb.
The Baku Museum of Miniature Books the only museum of miniature books in the world, settled in the old part of Baku, called Inner City. The museum started its operation on April 2, 2002. In 2015 the Museum of Miniature Books has presented the Certificate of the Guinness Book of Records as the largest private museum of miniature books.
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Museum of miniature books in Baku (part 2)
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BAKU MUSEUM OF MINIATURE BOOKS; BAKU CITY TOUR-2; BAKU BOOK CENTER
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Баку удивителен не только своими поразительными видами, вкусной едой и интересной историей, в нём так же есть множество необычных мест, которые вы нигде в мире не встретите. Одно из них – Музей самый маленьких книг в мире. Присоединяйтесь к нашей следующей поездке! Осталось уже совсем чуть-чуть мест!
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Museum of miniature books in Baku (part 1)
Museum of miniature books in Baku (part 1)
Museum of Miniature Book
On 23rd April 2002 in the historical place of Baku, Icheri Sheher, beside Shirvanshahs' Palace, the architectural monument of the 15th century on International day of books and author's right celebrated annually in the whole world by decision of UNESCO inauguration of the first private Museum of Miniature Books in the world took place.
Dante Divine Comedy 1823 miniature book Pickering lovely gilt leather binding w/ portrait engraving
[The Divine Comedy, Dante, Poetry].
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La Divina Comedia di Dante.
Published 1822-3, London by G. Pickering.
191 pages. Text in Italian.
Period full leather binding, spine richly decorated in gilt floral pattern, covers gilt ruled in outlines. Beautiful marbled end papers. Turn ins and all edges gilt. Engraved portrait frontis and half-title.
Front cover detached, but binding remains clean tight and sound. Frontis engraved portrait of Dante protected by original tissue guards.
Interior remains largely clean and free of spotting. Any age flaws are easy to overlook or forgive.
Lovely near miniature book. Retains an excellent shelf appearance. Still worthy of ownership and display.
Book measures: 3 1/4 H X 2 W.
[V2042].
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Floral Alphabet AMAZING MINIATURE BOOK
Miniature book filled with alphabet decorated with flowers. Handmade, hand drawn, it measures 1.8 x 1.5 cm (or 0.70 x 0.59 inch) and it is a perfect bound and hardcover book.
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Azerbaijan’s smallest copy of Quran in Ganja Museum
A very small copy of the Quran believed to be the smallest in the Republic of Azerbaijan, is kept in the Ganja Branch of Museum of Miniature Books.
According to Azertaj website, the copy weighs only 10 grams and measures 2 by 3 centimetres.
Dating back to 1672 AD, it is also one of the oldest copies of the Holy Book on display at the museum.
Despite being very small in size, the copy includes all the Surahs (chapters) and verses of the Quran.The Ganja branch of Baku Museum of Miniature Books was launched in Ganja in March 2016.It has 1068 copies of small books from 29 countries featuring different subjects.
The Baku Museum of Miniature Books is the only museum of miniature books in the world, settled in the old part of Baku, called Inner City. The museum started its operation on April 2, 2002.
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There is a huge number of different museums in the world. All of them are an essential part of our life. Thanks to the museums, we have an opportunity to enjoy the high art, to learn something new and expand our horizons.
Well, as times changes, so do the people’s tastes, needs and worldviews. In this respect, different format museums where people can see absolutely incredible and unusual exhibits appear.
In this program, we will visit Baku Museum of Miniature Books, Museum of Optical Illusions in Almaty and look at the works that presented at the “From waste to art” exhibition.
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National Library of Belarus acquire new miniature books.
National Library of Belarus acquire new miniature books.
The mini books are dedicated to Zarikha Salakhova, founder of the first Museum of Miniature Books in Baku. Her life is described in 400 miniature pages. The Museum of Book in Azerbaijan will turn 10 this year.
(Tatiana Sapega, head of museum activity sector at the National Library of Belarus)
World's smallest book 2018
World's Smallest Book
A new lecture series, sponsored by the University of Cincinnati Archives & Rare Books Library, highlights the world's smallest book. Mark Palkovic, a miniature book collector and head of the Albino Gorno Memorial Music Library, shows his copy of the world's smallest book. A copy of the book is also housed in UC's Rare Books Collection. Get more info at: