MausoleumsUnder 1 km away
Murad Avliya Mausoleum
A 19th-century shrine in west Samarkand over the grave of a scholar who died in 1511, one of the city's few Shia shrines, visited by Sunnis too.
State Museum of the History of Culture of Uzbekistan, Samarkand
Samarkand's main history museum, founded in 1896, with ceramics, coins, jewellery, Zoroastrian ossuaries and paintings by artists of the region.
Museums1896About 1.25 hours to see
About the place
The museum opened in 1896 under the regional statistical committee; the archaeologists Leon Barshchevsky and Vasily Vyatkin were its founders, and Vyatkin became the first director. It has changed names many times and since 1982 has been the main museum of the Samarkand State Museum-Reserve. Since 2014 it has occupied a renovated building on Mirzo Ulugbek Street.
The collections include ancient and medieval ceramics, metal and glass, some 30,000 coins, about 1,500 pieces of jewellery including a full 19th-century bridal set, Zoroastrian ossuaries, old chess pieces, around 20,000 items of clothing, embroidery and carpets, and paintings by Vereshchagin, Usto Mumin and other artists of Central Asia.
Why go
- A 19th-century bridal jewellery set
- Some 30,000 coins from many ancient states
- Paintings by Vereshchagin and Usto Mumin
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