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It is a palace dating back to the fifteenth century. Built by the rulers of Shirwan known as the Shirvanshahiyin, it was described by UNESCO as "one of the pearls of Azerbaijani architecture" dating back to the fourteenth century AD. This palace was the residence of the rulers of Shirwan, the ruling dynasty of northeastern Azerbaijan during the Middle Ages.

Known as home to rock carvings and mud volcanoes, there are nearly 700 mud volcanoes located around the world of which nearly 300 are located in this eastern part of Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea. The name of Gobustan has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the name of the City of Culture and Rock Art for Landscapes, because it includes these volcanoes and also because it preserves thousands of inscribed rock stones dating back to the twelfth century BC.

It is a cemetery and memorial in Baku dedicated to the dead of the massacre carried out by the Soviet army during the events of Black January 1990, and the murders of the Karabakh Highlands War in 1988-1994.

The museum provides rock exhibits that have been discovered throughout Azerbaijan as well as a model railway.

The Surakhani ship played an important role in the history of the transport of Azerbaijani oil by sea. The tanker Surakhani returns and first took off in the Caspian Sea in 1957. Until recently, the tanker Surakhani was used as an oil refining station at ASCO. In 2017, the ship was converted into a museum.

The building was built on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth, designed by the Azerbaijani engineer Hassan Megidov in 1960, and according to the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan the museum building became subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan and after that it was named the Museum Center, the museum houses more than 110 thousand exhibits, among which are copies of Lenin's manuscripts, collecting materials about the life of Lenin and his followers.