Alisher Navoi State Museum of Literature

Alisher Navoi State Museum of Literature is a scientific, educational and cultural institution. The museum displays manuscripts that reflect the centuries-old history of Uzbek literature, historical documents, paintings, various photographic materials.

The museum was founded in 1939. It was then, in the museum building, that an exhibition dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the great oriental poet, founder of Uzbek literature Alisher Navoi was held for the first time, and in 1967, according to the government decree “On the Museum of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, the museum received the status of a scientific and educational institution of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan.

The expositions of the museum demonstrate the best samples of national literature and monuments of material culture, which have a thousand-year history. The museum fund continues to be replenished, as employees of the departments are working on further studying the history of Uzbek literature, starting from antiquity to the present day.

A manuscript fund and a repository of old printed books, the number of which exceeds 2,000 titles, including the oldest and unique works of poets and writers - classics of national literature, have been created. Archive of modern writers and poets of Uzbekistan, which has more than 65,000 documents dating from the XIX century to the present. Visitors of the museum have the opportunity to see portraits of writers and poets, whose names are named streets and avenues of cities of Uzbekistan.