MuseumsUnder 1 km away
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.
Savitsky Museum
The State Museum of Arts of Karakalpakstan in Nukus, known for its collection of Soviet-era avant-garde painting alongside Karakalpak crafts and Khorezm archaeology.
Museums1966About 2.5 hours to see
About the place
The museum grew out of the work of Igor Savitsky, a painter and collector who came to Karakalpakstan with an archaeological expedition and stayed. He gathered Karakalpak jewellery, textiles and costume, and finds from the ancient sites of Khorezm, and became the museum's first director when it opened in the 1960s.
Savitsky also collected paintings by artists whose work did not fit the official style of the time, including those who had worked in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. Far from Moscow, he was able to buy and keep thousands of canvases and drawings that might otherwise have been lost.
Only part of the collection is on show at any one time. The halls of the applied arts, with yurt hangings, saddle bags and silver ornaments, are as rewarding as the painting galleries, and help to place the art in the region it was collected in.
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