The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan
Türkmenistanyň Döwlet Muzeýi | |
 The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan in front of Ashgabat Flagpole | |
  Location within Turkmenistan | |
| Established | 1998 |
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| Location | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
| Coordinates | 37°53′06″N 58°20′56″E / 37.8851°N 58.3489°E |
| Type | National museum |
| Website | museum |
The State Museum of Turkmenistan (Turkmen: Türkmenistanyň Döwlet Muzeýi), also known as the Saparmurat Turkmenbashi Museum, is a museum in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.[1][2] The museum was opened on 12 November 1998.[3] The museum has seven permanent galleries incorporating history, present day culture, and ethnography.[3]
Collections
[edit]As of 2013, the museum was split into three sections: natural history, science, and the President of Turkmenistan. Photography is forbidden in any part of the museum, and all visitors are followed by a museum employee during their stay. Many artifacts and photographs are clear fakes or digitally edited.
Natural History
[edit]The museum contains a large collection of ancient artifacts. However many are overly intricate, in pristine condition, and many thousand years old leading to questions about their authenticity.[citation needed]
It contains over 500,000 exhibits particularly archaeological and ethnographical finds throughout the country including rare works of ancient art, paintings, drawings, sculptures, carpets, rugs, fabrics and clothing; household utensils, musical instruments, weapons, jewelry, medals, historical documents, horn-shaped vessels made of ivory, statuettes of Parthian goddesses and colourful Buddhist vases.[4]
It also contains a significant number of fossils and rare geological finds.
President
[edit]The museum has one third of its floor space dedicated to the current President of Turkmenistan. In this section are images of the president doing a wide variety of things, including harvesting crops with his citizens, racing autos, reading with children, playing sports, and meeting world leaders.
Science
[edit]The section of the museum dedicated to science has no English captions, even though the rest of the museum does.
See also
[edit]- Neutrality Arch, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
References
[edit]- ^ "Национальный музей Туркменистана переименован | Интернет-газета Turkmenistan.Ru". www.turkmenistan.ru.
- ^ "The National Museum of Turkmenistan". ALMATY Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. UNESCO. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ a b Museum Guidebook, Saparamyrat Türkmenbaşy adyndaky Türkmenistanyň Milli muzeyi, Asgabat 2001.
- ^ turkmenistan.orexca.com Archived August 25, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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