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.