National Museum of History It contains the major treasures
discovered from all over the country. The most interesting expositions are
represented in archeology and ethnography departments. Archeological collection
contains very rare works of art of ancient times and middle ages which were
found on the territory of Turkmenistan. About 500.000 exhibits are displayed in
this museum. It boasts a full collection of Turkmenistan’s most significant architectural
finds of the XX century; a large number of ancient Turkmen carpets and rugs;
examples of national dress and fabrics; traditional household equipment;
musical instruments; weapons; jewelry; medals, historical documents,
horn-shaped vessels made of ivory, statuettes of Parthian goddess and Rodoguna,
colourful Buddhist vase representing life and death…
Its unique collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures
includes not only Turkmen fine arts but masterpieces of some Russian and
Western European artists of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. The collection
includes early paintings, water-colours and icons among its exhibits. Moreover
the museum reveals the variety of Turkmenistan’s landscape: its flora and
fauna, fossils and rare geological finds.
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