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State Flag Museum – a flag museum located in Baku, Azerbaijan, on State Flag Square. It was opened in 2010.

History

The State Flag Museum was opened on 9 November 2010 – on State Flag Day. President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva participated in the opening ceremony. The museum was built by the order of the President of Azerbaijan and created on State Flag Square.

In 2017, due to reconstruction and restoration work carried out on State Flag Square, the museum was closed for renovation. The renovated museum was presented on 8 November 2024.

Exhibition

The museum was built in the shape of an eight-pointed star and is located under the pedestal of the flagpole on State Flag Square. The museum was constructed based on projects by Azerbaijani architects and designers. It displays flags, coats of arms, constitutions, postage stamps, banknotes, orders and medals of states and khanates that existed on the territory of Azerbaijan in various periods. The museum’s collection includes 431 exhibits.

The museum exhibits a Guinness World Records certificate confirming that the flagpole of the State Flag of Azerbaijan is the tallest flagpole in the world, books, photographs, and a flag that once flew over the building of the Embassy of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Turkey. Most of the exhibits are shown for the first time. The museum also features an exhibition titled “Gallery of Victory” dedicated to the Second Karabakh War.

Exhibition Halls

The museum consists of 6 exhibition halls. Hall A displays flags, flag tops, symbols of authority, coins, weapons, and coats of arms of 19th‑century Azerbaijani cities from the ancient and medieval periods of Azerbaijan. Hall B covers the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the Azerbaijan SSR period. Here are shown the State Flag that was raised in the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on 7 December 1918, photographs from that period, banknotes, postage stamps, flags and coats of arms of the Azerbaijan SSR, constitutions adopted in various years, banknotes and postage stamps.

The exhibition hall C covers the independence period. Here are displayed commemorative medals and postage stamps dedicated to Heydar Aliyev, the standard of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the orders and medals of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as the orders and medals dedicated to the Second Karabakh War, and the State flag engraved on the world's highest peaks. In this hall there is a stand containing the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 17 November 2007 "On the creation of the State Flag Square in the capital city of Baku of the Republic of Azerbaijan", the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 17 November 2009 "On the establishment of the Day of the State Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan", and the decision of the Supreme Assembly of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic dated 17 November 1990 chaired by Heydar Aliyev.

In exhibition hall D the flags, medals, emblems and pennants of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan are displayed. In exhibition halls E and F the ceremonial dress uniforms of Azerbaijani military personnel are exhibited.