Traditional Musical Instruments in the Light of Museum Interpretation

How to explain Azerbaijani traditional music, especially musical instruments, to museum visitors, be they children or adult amateurs, musicians or researchers, locals or foreigners? This article shares the experience of the State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan in a multilayered approach to interpreting musical instruments, focusing on those that were common in the Muslim world in the Middle Ages and have largely disappeared. Reconstructed by Professor Majnun Kerimov, they have taken their place in the museum’s exposition and in the concert practice of the museum’s Ensemble of Ancient Eastern Musical Instruments.