Berdakh Museum

Berdakh Museum is a real treasury of the cultural heritage of the nation of Uzbekistan. A unique and very interesting museum containing expositions on the theme of culture, history, ethnography of Karakalpakia. The museum was opened in 1997, at Karakalpak University, in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great poet, historian and thinker Berdakh.

He is considered the first historian of the Karakalpak people, in his work “Shejire” – the genealogy of the whole people – a lot of historical facts, names and information about the Turkic peoples as a whole is collected. The museum building was specially designed and built at Karakalpak University. It decorates the city with its unusual architectural solution.

There are thematic halls with archaeological, ethnographic collections, a collection of art objects. The hall of manuscripts contains the oldest monuments of writing, and in the future it is planned to open a restoration center in the museum.