House-Museum of the Shamuratov Family

The house-museum of the Shamuratov family is a kind of visiting card of the original culture of the Karakalpaks. The exposition of the museum reflects the close ties of Karakalpak literature and art with Uzbek, Russian, Kazakh, Turkmen and Azerbaijani cultures.

The museum was opened in 1988 by spouses Ameta and Ayimkhanon Shamuratov. This is a museum of the era when ordinary workers were involved in the construction of a new, unprecedented culture. The main part of the exposition is the personal belongings of the spouses: photos, books, documents, portraits, concert attributes. The museum collection was also replenished with products of folk craft of Karakalpaks: carpet weaving products, household items, jewelry, objects of the recent past.

At the museum there is a dance and ethnographic ensemble "Ayymkhan Lapyzy" and there are circles for the study of foreign languages (Russian, English) and the study of national embroidery, there is even a preschool training circle.