It was humid afternoon on July 19, 2024, in Baku when I was invited to visit the Jafar Jabbarli Theatre Museum by Ümidə Hacıyeva, a staffer of Azerbaijan State Theatre Museum named after Jafar Jabbarli, a poet, prose writer, theater expert, dramaturge, translator, director, screenwriter, journalist and composer of 20th century, reports DND News Agency.

I had only some hours to explore Baku because I landed in Baku around 1 pm and early morning I had a flight to Fuzuli, a historic city after the name of Muhammad bin Suleyman, better known by his pen name Fuzuli, who was a 16th-century poet and is regarded as one of the greatest poets of Turkic literature and a prominent figure in both Azerbaijani and Ottoman literatures. From Fuzuli, I had scheduled to travel to Shusha—the jewel of Azerbaijani culture, music, and a seat of knowledge to attend the Second Shusha Global Media Forum. Since Fuzuli (Mohammed Fizuli–1494-1556) and Shusha (Bullbill–1897-1961) are cradles of music, poetry, and literature of Azerbaijani cognition, therefore, I wanted to visit the State Theatre Museum that could connect me psychologically to Azerbaijani literature, drama, theatre and music. When I reached the grandeur building of the State Theatre Museum, Ümidə Hacıyeva was already waiting for me at the main door of the building. I found her as a young, energetic, and confident staffer of the Museum whose English language was touching perfection, and her clarity of knowledge about the history of Azerbaijani culture, music, and literature surely impressed me.

It was an excellent experience of visiting the Museum and when I was leaving the building, I thought it was the perfect decision to visit this Museum because it had already connected me with the past of golden eras of Azerbaijan society.