Namangan Regional Museum of History and Culture

History

The museum opened under a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkestan Republic dated 19 April 1918: it was given two rooms in Russian School No. 1 and began life as a physics cabinet-museum. On 20 August 1920 it received the shop building of the merchant Hamdam Kalandarov in the city centre and became the Namangan City Museum of Local Lore. By 1922 it held 2,000 exhibits, with sections on zoology, mineralogy, anatomy and numismatics.

The museum gained regional status in 1938. In 2004–2008 new halls on history, ethnography, sport and the literary life of the region were fitted out on the third floor, and the natural history section gained dioramas. Since 2012 the Kosonsoy District History Museum has been a branch. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 975 of 11 December 2017 gave the museum its current name.

What to see

The displays cover the region's natural world — mountains, foothills and deserts and their wildlife — archaeological finds from Akhsikath and other sites, the history of Namangan and traditional crafts. Museum staff have published many books and booklets, including 'Akhsikent' and 'Secrets of the Architectural Monuments of Namangan Region'. The building is in the city centre, next to Babur Park.