Ashgabat National Museum Of History

Introduction About Ashgabat National Museum Of History

Apart from white marble buildings and grandoise monuments, Ashgabat, placed on the top of the list in Turkmenistan Tours due to its museums like Ashgabat National Museum of History and others. Known as the largest city in Central Asia, Ashgabat is worldwide famous for its elegant marble architecture among which some are included in Guinness Book of Records as “best of the best”. Established on 12th November 1998, Ashgabat National Museum of History is the first and largest among the 26 museums established post independence period of Turkmenistan.

Situated between the Karakum desert and Kopet Dag mountain ranges, Ashgabat means “coty of love” and “city of devotion”, in Persian language. In 2013, Ashgabat included in Guiness Book of Records as it has the highest concentration of white marble building all over the world.

As a major part of Historical & Archaeological Sites In Turkmenistan, Ashgabat National Museum of History’s most interesting parts are archaeology and ethnography. Included in Ashgabat – Top Places To Visit, this museum has very rare works of art of Turkmenistan of the timeperiod  from ancient times to the middle ages.

Location Of Ashgabat National Museum of History

Ashgabat National Museum of History is located on Archabil Avenue in the foothills of Kopet Dag in Asgabat.

Ashgabat National Museum of HistoryHighlighted Point Of Attraction

Included in Turkmenistan Highlights, there are 500,000 individual items are on exhibition in Ashgabat National Museum of History. In Turkmenistan Tours, you can find the ancient artefacts which were found at the excavations of Nisa, Merv and Gonur in this museum of History and Ethnography.

Covering 15, 000 square metres, Ashgabat National Museum of History is a three-storey museum.  Crowned with a dioctahedral blue dome, there are 16 facets which symbolise the number of Turkic states founded by Turkmen ancestors. The numbers of columns are 5 which are supporting the dome and the number signifies the number of provinces of Turkmenistan.

In the year 2009 the two more buildings to house the Museum of History and Ethnography and the Saparmurat Turkmenbashi Museum has added to the main building from both sides of it.

Built with a modern national architecture, the museum is decorated by tracery metal grids, decorative cornices and tinted stained glass windows by the use of granite, precious woods, bronze, facing materials from Turkey.

The exhibitions in 9 halls display Athens, Eros, silver gilded griffin, horn-shaped ivory vessels of rhinos of the Parthian era, gold jewelleries and medallions-stamps from Margiana, and Rodoguna, a Buddhist artefact. A fossilized piece of wood of the Paleozoic period, aged 270,000,000, dinosaurs’ footprints, an 820-kg meteorite, fallen in Kunya-Urgench can be found in this museum.

Ashgabat National Museum of History has the unique collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures of Turkmen fine arts and also the masterpieces of some Russian and Western European artists of 19th and 20th centuries. The collection includes early paintings, drawings, sculptures, carpets, rugs and fabrics in the exhibits.

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