Maqsud İbrahimbəyov yaradıcılıq mərkəzi

Maqsud İbrahimbəyov Creative Center — a museum dedicated to the work of Maqsud İbrahimbəyov, an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, screenwriter and deputy. The center is headed by Anna İbrahimbəyova.

Building

The building was constructed in 1914 for the writer's maternal grandfather, oil industry worker Ələkbər Məşədibəyov. After the revolution, it was nationalized in 1924. The architect of the building was Zivər bey Əhmədbəyov. The writer's mother Fatma khanım Məşədibəyova‑İbrahimbəyova was born in this house. After the revolution the building was rebuilt and turned into a residential house consisting of communal apartments and was used for this purpose until the 1970s. During the years of the Second World War the basement of the building was used as a shelter.

The building has two floors, a terrace and a basement. Since 1978 the Soviet Peace Committee's Azerbaijan branch has operated in this building.

As an important cultural heritage object, the building was included in 2001 in the list of historical monuments of the "Icheri Sheher" State Historical‑Architectural Reserve.

Opening

In 2016–2017, with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, restoration work was carried out on the building. According to the decree of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated 1 February 2018, the Maqsud İbrahimbəyov Creative Center was established in this building. The initiative to create the center belonged to the writer's spouse Anna İbrahimbəyova. The opening ceremony took place in March 2018.

On the first floor there is a library and a conference hall, and on the second floor there is a museum. The museum contains the writer's study, a literary room where books published in various languages are displayed. In one of the museum rooms a weapons collection belonging to the writer, gifted to the center by Anna İbrahimbəyova, is exhibited. Among the exhibits there are also orders, medals, deputy credentials, honorary decrees, posters of performances staged based on the writer's works, materials related to films made on the basis of his screenplay, as well as a document concerning the nomination of the writer for the Nobel Prize in 2012. In the family room photographs of the Məşədibəyov and İbrahimbəyov families are displayed.