Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan (CAMUZ)

The museum began in 1983 as the Al-Khwarizmi art gallery of Urgench, set up at the request of local artists, and later grew into the Contemporary Art Museum of Uzbekistan. It occupies the town's first post office, built in 1910, which is itself listed as a heritage building.

Its permanent display draws on roughly 3,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures by more than 200 artists who worked in Uzbekistan, and it regularly hosts temporary shows. The museum also runs two branches in Urgench: the Lazgi dance museum and the house-museum of the singer Komiljon Otaniyozov. Urgench is about 30 km from Khiva, so it fits into a half day from there.

• Art from Uzbekistan beyond the old monuments
• A 1910 post-office building
• Branches devoted to Lazgi dance and a Khorezm singer