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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 12 museums
Best museums in Baku
The 10 most notable museums in Baku, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Muzey Mərkəzi / Museum Center
Neftçilər Prospekti 49
614 m from Şəhidlər Xiyabanı, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.352, percentile 100 of 12
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2
Bulbulun Memorial Muzeyi
15 Bulbul Ave
249 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.313, percentile 90.91 of 12
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3
Uzeyir Hajibeyov House
67/69 Shamil Azizbeyov
222 m from Nizami Gəncəvi, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.233, percentile 81.82 of 12
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4
Mona Müasir Incəsənət Qalereyası
5 Yusif Səfərov küçəsi
710 m from Şah İsmail Xətai, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.103, percentile 72.73 of 12
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5
National Museum of History of Azerbaijan
4 Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev St
453 m from Sahil, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.044, percentile 63.64 of 12
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6
Suraxanı gəmi-muzeyi/Surakhani ship-museum
Bayıl, Dəzinkənarı Milli Park
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.948, percentile 54.55 of 12
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7
Azərbaycan Milli İncəsənət Muzeyi - Azerbaijan National Museum of Art
Niyazi Küçəsi 9
293 m from Icheri Sheher, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 0.871, percentile 45.45 of 12
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8
Azərbaycan Milli Xalça Muzeyi - Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum
Mikayıl Useynov Küçəsi 14
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 0.846, percentile 36.36 of 12
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9
Villa Petrolea
Nobel Prospect, Yavar Aliyev Cucasi
267 m from Ah Sheher, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.771, percentile 27.27 of 12
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10
İçərişəhər Muzey Mərkəzi - Old City Museum Center
İçərişəhər
292 m from Icheri Sheher, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 0.765, percentile 18.18 of 12
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).