Biology:State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan

Short description: Public, nature museum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan

"O'zbekiston Davlat Tabiat Muzeyi"
Established	2006
Location	Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Type	Public, nature museum
Collections	400.000
Founder	Uzbekistan

The Uzbekistan State Museum of Nature is the oldest museum operating in Uzbekistan. The museum's main purpose is to show the natural beauty of Uzbekistan and to help protect its environment. The museum features chronologically-ordered exhibits and seeks to educate visitors about Uzbekistan's geography through time.

Contents

The Museum consists of about four hundred thousand specimens and artefacts that are on display. Three hundred thousand items are insects. Eleven thousand are herbarium leaves and other zoological and geological materials. The museum is visited mainly by Uzbeks and visitors from formerly-Soviet Union countries.

The four areas in the museum are geological-geographic department, flora and fauna department, scientific department and funds department.

The museum organizes many social events in Tashkent, including assemblies in many of the Republic's schools, academic lyceums, colleges and higher education facilities.

History

Flora and nature of Uzbekistan

The Museum is the oldest in Uzbekistan. It was established in Tashkent by Russian scientists on July 12, 1876, as the Tashkent Museum. The museum closed and re-opened several times. In 1919, it opened as Turkestan National Museum. Two years later, in 1921, it became The State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan. In 1930, the museum joined with the agricultural museum and became the "Central Asian Museum of Nature and Building Power". Five years later the museum took its current name. In 1937, the museum opened a classroom for students to receive lectures on Uzbekistan nature.

Fauna and Nature of Uzbekistan

The museum has received many government awards for its contribution to the development of the academic sphere in Uzbekistan. In 1967, the museum was awarded "Uzbekistan's Best Museum". In 2006, the museum celebrated its 130-year anniversary.

See also

• State Museum of History of Uzbekistan
• The Museum of Health Care of Uzbekistan
• The Museum of Communication History in Uzbekistan
• Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan
• Tashkent Museum of Railway Techniques
• Museum of Geology, Tashkent
• Tashkent Poly-technical Museum
• The Alisher Navoi State Museum of Literature
• Museum of Victims of Political Repression in Tashkent
• Art Gallery of Uzbekistan
• Tashkent Planetarium

External links

• News about the museum in Uzbek
• Article about the museum in English
• Article about the Institute in English
• Article about the museum in English
• Brochure about the museum in Uzbek