After packing for the trip today we ate a quick breakfast, the weather had stayed around 60 degrees (fahrenheit) this week and was heating up to 66 degrees today.
CULTURE Today the group went to The Tiny Book Museum in the capital city of Baku, this museum is the only tiny book museum in the whole world! The museum was opened on April 2 2002 in Azerbaijan's capital. The books were collected in a span of 30 years by a woman called Zarifa Salahova, and the books have come from many 64 different countries! There are more than 6500 books that have been collected by Ms. Salahova. Don't get the wrong idea like I did, I thought the museum was tiny, but instead it is the books that are miniature! It is a huge collection of mini books!
CULTURE Today the group went to The Tiny Book Museum in the capital city of Baku, this museum is the only tiny book museum in the whole world! The museum was opened on April 2 2002 in Azerbaijan's capital. The books were collected in a span of 30 years by a woman called Zarifa Salahova, and the books have come from many 64 different countries! There are more than 6500 books that have been collected by Ms. Salahova. Don't get the wrong idea like I did, I thought the museum was tiny, but instead it is the books that are miniature! It is a huge collection of mini books!
The main idea for the museum was to promote child literacy.
There are so many books for all around the world, though I could not read them because
they aren't written in English. The majority of these tiny books, which is even considered an art, were made in Soviet Russia and many other countries.
Some of them are so small you can’t even read the text without using a magnifying glass to see! We really wanted to buy one of the small books as a souvenir, however we weren't allowed to. You could buy some books that were on key chains but that was about it. There were a ton of people there to see the books, and there were even other kids just to see were the books came from! The books were kept neatly and they seemed to be in good condition for how old some of them are. The fact that some people spent their entire lives making these minute books, amazes me!
Some of them are so small you can’t even read the text without using a magnifying glass to see! We really wanted to buy one of the small books as a souvenir, however we weren't allowed to. You could buy some books that were on key chains but that was about it. There were a ton of people there to see the books, and there were even other kids just to see were the books came from! The books were kept neatly and they seemed to be in good condition for how old some of them are. The fact that some people spent their entire lives making these minute books, amazes me!
The collection itself was impressive and included the
authors Chukovsky, Barto, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and works of A.S.Pushkin. Each of
those where well known Middle Eastern writers and each has their works in this
museum. The library did not forget to include the classics of their country and
some other famous writers have made their mark on the museum.
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