Bukhara State Museum-Reserve

Bukhara State Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve was founded in 1922. Since 1945, the Bukhara Museum has been located in the Ark fortress. The museum of Bukhara has more than 100,000 exhibits of cultural material and spiritual heritage of the Uzbek people. Among the exhibited items you can see gold embroidery of Bukhara masters, copper coinage, ganch carvings, architectural decoration samples, coins, household items, graphics, painting, sculpture, old maps, books and other documents of historical value. In 1985, the Bukhara Museum received the status of a state museum-reserve. Today it has 6 branches, uniting 18 permanent expositions located in various architectural monuments of Bukhara.

Expositions of the Museum of Bukhara

The Ark Citadel houses the head office of the Bukhara Museum and its exposition of history, numismatics, epigraphy, nature and writing of Bukhara.

- Decorative and applied art of the peoples of Central Asia, as well as household items of Bukhara emirs can be seen in the branch of the museum, located in the summer country residence of Bukhara emirs Sitorai Mohi-Khosa.

- In the Memorial House-Museum of Fayzulla Khodjaev, visitors can get acquainted with the life of a rich merchant family of the late XIX - early XX centuries.