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'''Rinay''' is a [[Malacology|malacological]] [[List of natural history museums|museum of natural history]] in [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.gomap.az/info/Description.aspx?guid=97375ee6d56611e0ad4900226424597d&lng=en&ref=gm | title=Museum Malakofauna "Rinay" | website=www.gomap.az | publisher=The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan | access-date=28 July 2020 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-12-28 |title=Malacology exhibition opens in Baku [PHOTO] |url=https://www.azernews.az/culture/124740.html |access-date=2024-06-12 |website=Azernews.Az |language=en}}</ref> It is also the first [[private museum]] in the country.<ref name=":0" />

== Structure ==
The museum exhibits approximately 5,000 [[clam]] shells (the shells of [[bivalve]] molluscs) from 86 [[genus|genera]] worldwide.<ref name="Y">''Yol'' magazine, N4 (8), 2007, pp. 40, 44</ref> The museum also displays hundreds of fossil clamshells. Some of these were obtained by exchange from the [[Austria]]n, [[Canada|Canadian]], [[Argentina|Argentine]], [[Spain|Spanish]], [[Germany|German]], [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]], [[Russia]]n, [[Turkey|Turkish]] and [[Indonesia]]n [[paleontological]] university museums.<ref name="Y" /> 

The basis for the museum collection was laid down in the early 1930s by [[Sadykh Karayev]], an Honored Engineer and Honored Inventor of the [[USSR]].<ref name=":0" /> Karayev's [[Clam|clamshell]] collection was preserved by his wife Prof. Jeyran Ibadova, and was transferred from Rinay to the [[History Museum of Azerbaijan]] in June 2007. Sadykh Karayev's son Tofik Karayev continued the effort to improve his father's collection. T. Karayev previously worked at the Geological Institute of the [[Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR]]. He systematized the collection and conducted a taxonomic revision of modern molluscs. In 1989, the museum received official status.{{fact|date=July 2020}}

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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081004090453/http://www.icom.azeurotel.com/en/profiles09en.html Overview (Azerbaijan National Committee of International Council of Museums)]

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