This rather dry museum nevertheless contains many interesting local artifacts, most of which can be better understood by taking a free English-language tour. Downstairs there's lots of taxidermy, archeological finds and ethnographic displays, while upstairs is devoted entirely to Karabakh's 20th-century turmoil, from the arrival of communism to fight for independence.
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