In one of the scenic locations of Ashgabat the French construction giant “Bouygues” is completing the construction of a new building of Museum of Turkmen Carpet.
The Carpet Museum is really a unique collection of valuable hand-made carpets, some of which are more than a hundred years old. This collection of national heritage of Turkmen people needs a worthy setting.

While designing and constructing the hew ‘house’ for Carpet Museum the architects had to solve several specific tasks as the building with the floor space exceeding 5000 square metres is meant for storing, restoring and displaying of the unique carpet collection. Therefore the designers applied the best practices of world’s famous museums, Louvre Museum in particular. The lighting of the exposition halls will be arranged through the openings in the ceiling and by means of special lamps and mirror glass windows. “Clever” supporting systems will continuously maintain temperature and humidity rate optimum for storing carpets.
The upper floors of the building will accommodate the exposition halls whereas the basement floors will be occupied by workshops where all the steps of carpet making process will be reproduced.

The completion of the construction of Carpet Museum is scheduled for the second half of 2009.