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Tashkent Museum of Astronomy

A small Tashkent museum opened in 2009 on the history of astronomy, with old telescopes, navigation instruments and a celestial globe by a Bukhara scholar.

MuseumsOpened 2009

About the place

The Museum of Astronomy opened in Tashkent on 16 December 2009. Its displays include a telescope by James Short, a Dollond reflector, a Hadley octant and a Harrison marine chronometer, instruments that trace how people learned to observe the sky and find their way at sea.

Alongside them is a celestial globe by Muhammad Sharif Bukhari, a reminder of the long tradition of astronomy in Central Asia that runs back to Ulugh Beg's observatory in Samarkand.

Why go

  • Historic telescopes and navigation instruments
  • Celestial globe by Muhammad Sharif Bukhari
  • Opened in December 2009

Sources (3)

  1. 1.Wikidata
  2. 2.ru.wikipedia.org
  3. 3.uz.wikipedia.org

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