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Termez Archaeological Museum

The region's main museum, with finds from the Buddhist monasteries, Kushan towns and medieval Termez, displayed in order from the Stone Age onward.

Museums2001About 1.5 hours to see

About the place

The museum opened in 2002 and brings together material from excavations across Surkhandarya. The halls move from Stone Age tools through Bronze Age settlements to the Greco-Bactrian and Kushan periods, then to the Islamic city.

The Buddhist rooms are the highlight: sculpture, painted plaster and small objects from Fayaz Tepe, Kara Tepe, Dalverzin Tepe and other sites. Seeing them before you go out to the ruins helps you picture what those bare walls once held.

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