House of Khurshidbanu Natavan

The House of Khurshidbanu Natavan (Azerbaijani: Xurşidbanu Natəvanın evi), also known as the Palace of Natavan, Daughter of the Khan (Azerbaijani: Xan qızı Natəvanın sarayı), is an 18th or 19th-century historical and architectural monument, and a museum in Shusha, Azerbaijan.

During Soviet rule, it served as a music and art school, and later, as a house-museum dedicated to Natavan.

[1][2] On Bulbul's initiative, the People's Commissariat of Education of the Azerbaijani SSR established the Shusha Music School on 10 October 1932.

In 1987, the Soviet government restored the building and created the house-museum of Khurshidbanu Natavan, a branch of the National museum of Azerbaijan literature named after Nizami Ganjavi, with its first director being Namig Babayev.

[5] According to the Azerbaijani officials, the Armenian forces destroyed and looted hundreds of paintings, carpets, miniatures, souvenirs and archaeological samples collected in the museum.

[10] Azerbaijan recaptured Shusha after a three-day long battle on 7 November 2020, during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.

[14] The access to the second floor is achieved by a stone staircase built into the house's western wall.

The hall is illuminated on both sides by large mesh windows measuring 5x3,5 meters along its entire length.

House of Natavan, historical photograph