Baku is Azerbaijan's largest cultural center. It was here that the first national theater in the Muslim East was raised, the first opera was performed, the first Azerbaijani newspaper was published, the first Azerbaijani library was opened. Today in Baku there are 30 museums, 7 theaters, 11 universities, a Philharmonic, an opera house, a film studio, cinemas, libraries located in the most beautiful buildings of the city, whose external decoration is not inferior to the internal cultural content.