Gala State Historical Ethnographic Reserve

[1] The museum is 1.5 ha in area and has rock paintings, pottery, household items, jewelry, weapons and coins belong to the ancient times of Azerbaijan.

[2] In this museum, there are more than 2,000 different archaeological and architectural monuments – mounds, seats of ancient settlements, burial places dating back to thousands of years ago.

As a result of archaeological excavations, it is feasible to get the picture of the lifestyle of the Azerbaijani people from ancient times to the Middle Ages.

[4] In 2008, on the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Archeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex under the open sky was established.

Ancient mounds, gravestones, dwellings, quarries, places of worship and some other material cultural remains found in the territory of Absheron Peninsula reflect the mood of the previous millennia.

Archaeological excavations have been proven to be the Bronze Age settlement, 5,000 years ago in the village of Gala.

Rock paintings and caves dating back to the new stone Bronze Age were discovered during the archaeological excavations in the Aghdash Plain, Khashakhun and Dubendi in the vicinity of Gala village in the east of Absheron.