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State Museum of History and Culture of Karakalpakstan

Nukus's regional museum, founded in 1929, with archaeology from the Stone Age on, Karakalpak crafts and the 20th-century history of the republic.

Museums1929About 1 hour to see

About the place

This is one of the oldest museums in the lower Amu Darya and Aral region. It opened in 1929 in Turtkul, then the capital of Karakalpakstan, with the help of scholars such as Sergey Tolstov, and moved to Nukus in 1944 after floods on the Amu Darya; its earlier name was the local history museum.

The halls cover archaeology from the Palaeolithic onwards, the applied art of the Karakalpaks, and the history of the region in the 20th century. It is a good complement to the Savitsky art museum in Nukus.

Why go

  • Archaeology from the Palaeolithic onwards
  • Karakalpak applied art
  • One of the oldest museums of the Aral region

Sources (5)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org
  4. 4.openstreetmap.org
  5. 5.museumkr.uz

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