Old village
Traditional houses and workshops.
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A museum complex in the village of Gala on the Absheron Peninsula, some forty kilometres from Baku, founded in 2008 to show the history of Absheron and the lives of its people from antiquity to the Middle Ages. It includes an open-air museum of archaeology and ethnography, a castle museum and a museum of antiquities. Visitors wander an open-air village of stone and straw houses with domes, portable tents of animal hides, a pottery workshop, a smithy, a threshing floor, an eighteenth-century tandoor bread oven and two underground passages from the tenth and fifteenth centuries; many of the exhibits can be touched and photographed. The museums display finds from Absheron, including pottery, household goods, jewellery, weapons, coins and rock carvings, and an old stone castle tower overlooks the complex. The village around it has many historic monuments, from mosques and bathhouses to old houses. Entry is by ticket, with tours in several languages; prices may change, so check on arrival. It lies well outside central Baku, so going by car or on a tour that includes the nearby Ateshgah temple is easiest.
Traditional houses and workshops.
Over the complex.
10th and 15th century.
Gala village, Absheron Peninsula, about forty kilometres east of Baku
Yes; many exhibits can be touched and photographed, children enjoy the open-air village, and tours run in several languages.