The main museum of Turkmenistan

Museum building

The Main museum of Turkmenistan[1] (Türkmenistanyň Milli muzeyi), also known as the Sparmurat Turkmenbashi Museum, is a museum in Turkmenistan.[2]

The museum was opened on 12 November 1998.[3] . The museum has seven permanent galleries incorporating history, present day culture, and ethnography.[4]

Collections

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

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.

President

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. While some photos are genuine, many are digitally altered to the point that they are comical.

Science

The section of the museum dedicated to science has no English captions, even though the rest of the museum does.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Museum renamed
  2. ↑ "The National Museum of Turkmenistan". ALMATY Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. UNESCO. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Museum Guidebook, Saparamyrat Türkmenbaşy adyndaky Türkmenistanyň Milli muzeyi, Asgabat 2001.
  4. ↑ Museum Guidebook, Saparamyrat Türkmenbaşy adyndaky Türkmenistanyň Milli muzeyi, Asgabat 2001.

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