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The conquest of Central Asia (Mawarannahr) by the Arabs, its incorporation into the caliphate and the assertion of Islam as the unified religion here by…

Gold embroidery is an urban and court craft, developed in Bukhara.   he State Museum of Arts has assembled a unique collection of festive men’s and…

Throughout its history, the art of gold embroidery has gained undying fame. There is every reason to believe that the art of gold stitching flourished…

In the State Museum of Applied Arts and Crafts History of Uzbekistan, knives and sheaths are highlighted in a separate collection. Uzbek knives are quite…

The "Turkestan Collection" (full title – "The Turkestan Collection of Works and Articles Pertaining to Central Asia in General and the Turkestan Region…

The history of creating and maintaining personal libraries and book collections in Central Asia dates back to the distant past, from the 8th to the 14th…

The manuscript fund, unique and especially valuable publications of the National Library of Uzbekistan, is part of the library's holdings, consisting of…

Uzbekistan’s figurative pottery center is Samarkand.   One of the old masters who left a lasting mark on the local style was Umarkul Jurakulov…

Ikat fabrics hold a special place in the collection of the State Museum of Arts.   They got their name (abr) because of the complicated and painstaking…

The production of fabrics – cotton, silk, semi-silk and woollen – has been known on the territory of Uzbekistan since ancient times. Silk-weaving as…

In miniature painting, for the first time in the medieval Oriental art, the theme of labor was covered in detail by Behzad in miniatures depicting the…

In the 19th – early 20th centuries the main material for gold embroidery was velvet (bakhmal); silk, local semi-silk fabric called alocha, wool fabrics,…

The main and commonest embroidery material until the late 19th century was silk thread of local production.   Women independently grew silkworms…

Pottery is the oldest traditional folk art of Uzbekistan. Contemporary Uzbek showpiece ceramics as well as ceramics for everyday use are heirs to the…

The Saxonian State Collections of Ethnography (SES) were formed in 2004 from the three ethnological museums in Saxony – Leipzig, Dresden and Herrnhut.   All…

The art of metal processing is one of the oldest kinds of applied art in Uzbekistan. The State Museum of Arts holds a rich collection of Uzbek copper-embossed…

The architectural complex of Khazrat Imam, the main monument of the architectural complex “Dar us-sadat” is located in the city of Shakhrisabz, Kashkadarya…

Wood carving and painting are also widely represented in the collection of the Museum. Items of this art include various household goods (screens, carved…

On February 3, 1910, a long-awaited event took place in Saint Petersburg – the solemn laying of the foundation stone of the Cathedral Mosque occurred on…

The Uzbek collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion from Uzbekistan represents an assortment of items characterizing the lifestyle of the…

Ganch decor was used in Uzbekistan to decorate the walls of palaces, mosques and houses. In the late 19th– early 20th centuries, famous centres of such…

Important additions to the Stibbert Museum collection in Italy were acquired in 1981, including costumes and weapons (about forty items) collected by Senator…

The Turin Museum of Eastern Art's collection includes at least three samples of Timurid tiles. One of these is a majolica panel composed of twelve square…

The Ms. 2197 held in Bologna is the only extant manuscript which includes the complete translation into Hebrew of the entire text of the Qanun of Ibn Sina.…