The Azerbaijani Documentary Project uses genuine artifacts to relate Azerbaijan's complex heritage. The Project includes collecting and preserving videos, photographs, mementos, and oral histories of individuals with a connection to Azerbaijan. The Foundation makes these firsthand records available to researchers in the Karabakh Foundation Archive. These collections form the basis for museum and archival presentation. The ADP to date has accomplished the following:

• Oral-history interviews of dozens of individuals with connections to Azerbaijan.
• Digitized records of some archival material for use by filmmakers, authors, and others.
• Human-interest content based on personal stories for Foundation and other publications.
• Professionally maintained museum- and archive-class collections accessible to cultural institutions.
• Firsthand accounts from Azerbaijan.
• Virtual exhibits built around objects of Azerbaijani art, everyday life, and history.
• Donations of artifacts, including publications, to major institutions such as the U.S. Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution.
• Partnerships with filmmakers and photographers to document and display evidence of Azerbaijani life and history.
• Publications that preserve cultural "artifacts" such as oral histories, recipes, and musical compositions.
• Preservation of endangered and underrepresented Azerbaijani artifacts.
  
  

Artifact Donations Received by the Foundation

The first Karabakh Foundation collection was donated beginning in 2010 by Joel Forman of Culver City, California.The Joel Forman Azerbaijani Coin Collection includes 19 coins, paper money, and 38 stamps from Azerbaijan. Several of the coins are rare artifacts from the reigns of Shah Verdi Khan and the Safavid dynasty. The artifacts are currently open to researchers by appointment and are being incorporated into an upcoming Karabakh Foundation online exhibition Azerbaijan Artifacts. curator@KarabakhFoundation.org .

Artifact Donations to Other Institutions

The Karabakh Foundation recently donated the following items to the Library of Congress:

• Azerbaijan Review-newspaper
• Istoricheskoe proshloe Uzbekistana
• Azerbaijan oil during the Soviet era (DVD)
• Niyyet (Intention) (DVD)
• Azerbaijan (DVD)
• Guzgu (DVD)
• Mahkumlar (The Doomed)(DVD)
• Azerbaijan Carpets (DVD)

To see the official thank you letter, please click here.