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State Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan
A museum of Uzbek crafts in an early 20th-century house with carved plaster and painted wood interiors, showing suzani, ceramics, jewellery and textiles.
State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan
Tashkent's natural history museum, descended from the Turkestan museum of 1876, with about 400,000 specimens including 300,000 insects.
MuseumsFounded 1876
About the place
The museum traces its roots to 12 July 1876, when Russian naturalists founded a public museum of Turkestan in Tashkent, counted as the oldest museum in Central Asia. After many renamings it became the State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan in 1935.
Halls follow the story of life on Earth, the evolution of living things and the nature of Uzbekistan's deserts, rivers and mountains. Of its roughly 400,000 items, some 300,000 are insects and 11,000 are herbarium sheets, alongside animal and geological collections.
Why go
- One of the oldest museums in Central Asia
- Huge insect collection
- Overview of Uzbekistan's landscapes and wildlife
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