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1. The State Museum of Applied Arts ^www
   In State museum of applied art of Uzbekistan there are more than 7,000 pieces of traditional folk art, starting from the first half of XIX century until modern times. The museum collection is represented by all regions of Uzbekistan, many of which are recognized as centers of artful handicrafts. Among the exhibits you will find ceramic, glass and porcelain plates and dished, samples of hand-made and machine embroidery, national fabrics and clothes, carpets, works of wood engraving, varnished miniatures, jewelry and many other things.
   Rating: 657


2. Memorial house museum of Tamara Khanum ^www
   The house museum of Tamara Khanum was created in 1994, based on the ongoing exhibition of her costumes. In the museum of Tamara Khanum you can see the original interiors where she lived the last years of her life, many of her costumes, photographs from the 1920-80s, manuscripts, and her unpublished memoirs, as well as listen to her songs. There are paintings, clothes, household items, etc.
   Rating: 608


3. The Mukarram Turgunbaeva Museum ^www
   The Mukarram Turgunbaeva Museum was created in honour of the great dancer and organizer of the Uzbek mass stage dancing and an illustrations State Ensemble of national dances "Bakhor".
   Rating: 517


4. Memorial house museum of Yuldash Akhunbabayev ^www
   In the years of the 1930s and 1940s, Yuldash Akhunbabayev made a considerable contribution to the development of the economy and culture of Uzbekistan. During this time, he took part in organizing irrigation and agricultural projects. He also participated in the Cultural Revolution, in the liquidation of illiteracy and the freeing of women.
   Rating: 509


5. The Sergey Borodin Museum ^www
   The Sergey Borodin Home-museum is situated in the house where the prominent Russian writer of the middle of the XX-th century and an author of series of important books of historical prose has lived since 1950 till 1974.
   Rating: 496


6. House museum of Gafur Guliam ^www
   The museum is located in the house where Gafur Guliam lived and worked from 1944-66. In the literary part you can see photographs, original documents and personal items of the poet, as well as first and later editions of his works. In the memorial part you can see his working study, living room and recreation room. There are books from his personal library, his desk and household items.
   Rating: 475


7. Mukhtar Ashrafi's House museum ^www
   Mukhtar Ashrafi's House museum is devoted to the famous Uzbek composer and conductor, People's Artist of the USSR, and one of the founders of the national opera, who dedicated his entire life to the development of Uzbekistan's musical culture. The museum was opened to visitors in 1982. The museum occupies the apartment in which Mukhtar Ashrafi lived and worked from 1965 to 1975. It was here that Ashrafi created his ballets "Amulet of Love", "Timur Malik", the oratorio "Legend of Rustam" and the first chapter of his memoirs.
   Rating: 458


8. Memorial house museum of Ural Tansykbaev ^www
   Tashkent small museums The House museum of USSR People's Artist Ural Tansykbaev's creative years covers the period between the 1920s and 1970s. U. Tansykbaev's heritage is immense. Tashkent small museums The artist's most important works are exhibited, both in the memorial part of the museum, and in the gallery built for this purpose.
   Rating: 444


9. Tashkent Planetarium ^+info
   Perhaps every one of us in childhood dreamt of conquering space, flying to the skies, observing the Earth from above or making a few steps on the Moon. It is barely possible today for majority of people to repeat those feats of brave cosmonauts. However, everyone who wants to look at Saturn rings and Jupiter companions could observe them in the Tashkent planetarium.
   Rating: 441


10. The State Museum of Arts ^+info
    The State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan is one of the largest museums in the Central Asia, which was founded in 1918 on the base of a small collection from 500 exhibits. These were the works of the Russian and the West-European art such as painting, sculpture, decorative furniture, porcelain and bronze.
    Rating: 439


11. The Yunus Radjabi Home-museum ^www
    The Yunus Radjabi Home-museum is situated in the house where this remarkable musician has lived for the last 20 years of his life - since 1956 till 1976.This museum is the youngest memorial museum in Tashkent.
    Rating: 433


12. Sergey Esenin Museum ^www
    Sergey Esenin was a great Russian poet, the author of hundreds of popular poems including a series of poems "Persian Motives". In 1921 Sergey Esenin visited Tashkent, met local poets and read his poem "Pugchev" which he'd just finished.
    Rating: 431


13. The Tashkent House of Photography ^+info
    The Tashkent House of Photography (THP) is situated in the centre of Tashkent in a monumental building with a facade executed in the style of Medieval Eastern architecture and decorated with a tile portal. This architectural monument was constructed in 1934 from the design of well-known Uzbek architects K. Babievsky and A. Petelin and the idea of ethnographer painter V. Rozvadovsky.
    Rating: 424


14. House museum of Aybek Musa Tashmukhamedov ^+info
    The house museum of Aybek Musa Tashmukhamedov (1905-1968) is in one of old areas of Tashkent. Here, in the silent street of Tazetdinova (earlier Kislovodsk), in 1940 Aybek lived with his family.
    Rating: 420


15. Art Gallery of Uzbekistan ^+info
    The richest collection of artworks of Uzbekistan from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day, as well as a unique collection of Central Asian coins are on display in the Art Gallery, which opened its doors on the eve of the celebration of Independence Day of the Republic of Uzbekistan in 2004. The first exhibition mostly included the collection of the Paintings Gallery of the National Bank for Foreign Economic Activity of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which was established in 1994 upon the initiative of the President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov.
    Rating: 415


16. Temurids Museum ^+info
    State Museum of History of Temurids opened in Tashkent on 18 October, 1996. The museum was placed in the centre of Tashkent for the 660-year anniversary of Amir Temur, and has an unusual shape, in the shape of a dome, in accordance with the style of famous local landmarks.
    Rating: 414


17. The Museum of Olympic Glory ^+info
    The Museum of Olympic glory was created by the Resolution of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan. In the ceremony opening of the museum took part the President of the republic of Uzbekistan I.A. Karimov and the president of the International Olympic Committee Xuan Antonio Samaranch.
    Rating: 408


18. Tashkent museum of railway engineering ^+info
    Tashkent museum of railway engineering was opened on August 4, 1989 in honor of Uzbek main railway line's centenary. Museum is owned by SJSRC "O'zbekiston Temir Yo'llari" and as an object of social-technical culture it is a component of Central railwaymen's palace of culture.
    Rating: 404


19. The State Museum of History ^+info
    The State Museum of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan is one of Central Asia's largest and oldest research and educational institutions, dating back more than 120 years.
    Rating: 403


20. Museum of Victims of Repressions ^+info
    Uzbekistan, a country that keeps tight control over information on current events, is taking tentative steps toward an exploration of its recent past. A new museum in Tashkent is devoted to raising awareness about repression during the tsarist and Soviet eras.
    Rating: 388