Samarkand Museum of History and Culture of Art of the Peoples of Uzbekistan

Samarkand Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of Uzbekistan is one of the oldest and largest museums not only in the country, but throughout Central Asia. The opening of the museum took place in 1896, and since 1978 the museum is located in the center of Samarkand on Registan Square, in a separate building. In the collection of the museum there are more than 200 thousand different valuable exhibits.

The collections of the museum include archaeology and ethnography, numismatics and applied arts, valuable manuscripts and ancient books and documents, as well as other items. The museum presents history from the Paleolithic times to almost the present day. The most valuable exhibits of the museum of history and culture are considered to be a bronze helmet of a warrior of the VI century BC, a collection of ancient coins, Buddhist temple sculptures, Zoroastrian skeletons. No less interesting are the painted palace panels, lists of the Qur’an of the XI century, clothes and jewelry. Today, the Samarkand Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of Uzbekistan receives tens of thousands of visitors annually – both tourists and residents of the city.