Baku, September 18, AZERTAC On September 16, an international scientific and practical conference titled “The Unbreakable Thread of Time: The Connection Between Centuries and the Heritage of Museums” was held in the village of Cîrso̦vo, in Moldova’s Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, as part of celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the Dmitri Kara Çoban National Gagauz Historical and Ethnographic Museum.The official opening of the conference featured addresses by Marina Semyonova, Head of the General Directorate of Culture of Gagauzia; Todur Zanet, academician, writer, researcher, and translator; Petru Vicol, Director General of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History of Moldova; and Lyudmila Marin, Director of the National Gagauz Historical and Ethnographic Museum.The event, held with the support of the International Organization of Turkic Culture (TÜRKSOY), was attended on behalf of Azerbaijan by Amina Melikova, Director of the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum and PhD in Art History. During the conference’s first panel, titled “Cultural Heritage of the Turkic World: Research, Preservation and Development,” Amina Melikova delivered a presentation titled “10 Reasons Why a Carpet Can Make You Happy.”The second panel of the conference was dedicated to “Museum Collections: Preserving the Past, Paving the Way to the Future.”The scientific and practical conference brought together representatives and specialists from the fields of science and culture from Moldova, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan, and other countries.The event provided a platform for exchanging views and experience on the research, preservation, and transmission of the cultural heritage of the Turkic world to future generations, the safeguarding of museum collections, and the role of museums in preserving the cultural memory of society.