Tajik National Museum

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Tajik National Museum
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place Dushanbe coordinates: 38 ° 33 ′ 43 ″  N , 68 ° 47 ′ 56 ″  EWorld icon
Art
History and culture
opening Reopening in 2013

The Tajik National Museum is a museum on the history and culture of the country of Tajikistan in its capital, Dushanbe .

building

A new, modern building was built for the National Museum in Dushanbe, and the museum moved to it in 2013. It comprises 22 exhibition halls with a total area of ​​around 15,000 square meters. The building is located in the immediate vicinity of the Warsob River . In the vicinity are the Monument to the Independence of Tajikistan, the National Library of Tajikistan and several parks, including the Rudaki Park, named after the poet Rudaki .

Exhibitions

The aim of the museum is to give the visitor more knowledge about the history and culture of the young Central Asian state, which only gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 . The museum is thematically divided into three areas: One area on the subject of natural history , another area on the subject of archeology and finally an area on the subject of contemporary art . The exhibits in the archaeological section come from various eras, starting in the time before the Islamic expansion into Central Asia , when Zoroastrianism was the predominant religion in Central Asia. The best-known parts of the exhibition include wall paintings from Old Punjakent , which is also known as Pompeii of Tajikistan due to its magnificent wall paintings , a wooden Islamic prayer niche ( mihrāb ) from the 10th century and a replica of the Buddhist monastery complex Adschina-Teppa , which is located in the Located in southern Tajikistan. Another part of the exhibits is a collection of gifts from other heads of state to the Tajik President Emomalij Rahmon .

Withheld works of art

The National Museum has been criticized for failing to show the public paintings by well-known artists that are owned by the museum. Works by Russian artists, including Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski and Wiktor Michailowitsch Wasnezow, are particularly affected, but also works by famous Western artists such as Raffael and Giovanni Bellini . After there was another discussion about these works in 2011, the museum promised to exhibit the pictures after moving into the new building, but this did not happen.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bakhriddin: National Museum of Tajikistan. Retrieved November 17, 2018 (UK English).
  2. ↑ Tajikistan national museum reopens. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  3. ^ National Museum of Tajikistan. Retrieved November 17, 2018 (de-US).
  4. ↑ Tajikistan: The legendary Pompeii of Central Asia . In: Spiegel Online . March 20, 2006 ( spiegel.de [accessed November 17, 2018]).
  5. ^ National Museum. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Russian painting in Tajik National museum in Dushanbe | Tajikistan News ASIA-Plus . ( news.tj [accessed November 17, 2018]).