The National Museum of Tajikistan (russian: Национальный музей Таджикистана; tg, Осорхонаи миллии Тоҷикистон, Osorkhonai Millii Tojikiston) is a
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
in
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (r ...
, the capital city of
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
.
Area and departments
The museum has a total area of 24 000 meters
2, of which over 15 000 m
2 are exhibition halls. It is composed of four exhibition departments—Department of Natural History, Department of Ancient and Medieval History, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, and Department of Fine and Applied Arts.
Gallery
File:Dushanbe - National Museum of Antiquities - Takhti Sangin Site.jpg, Hellenistic satyr from Takht-i Sangin
Takht-i Sangin ( Tajik: "Throne of Stone") is an archaeological site located near the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, the source of the Amu Darya, in southern Tajikistan. During the Hellenistic period it was a city in the Greco-Bactrian ...
. Tajikistan National Museum
File:Dushanbe - National Museum of Antiquities - Takhti Sangin Site, 3rd-4th c BC.jpg, Hellenistic statuette from Takht-i Sangin
Takht-i Sangin ( Tajik: "Throne of Stone") is an archaeological site located near the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, the source of the Amu Darya, in southern Tajikistan. During the Hellenistic period it was a city in the Greco-Bactrian ...
, 3rd-4th century BCE, Tajikistan National Museum
File:Dushanbe - National Museum - Statue of a Woman - Takhti Sangin, 2nd-3rd c BC.jpg, Hellenistic statuette from Takht-i Sangin
Takht-i Sangin ( Tajik: "Throne of Stone") is an archaeological site located near the confluence of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers, the source of the Amu Darya, in southern Tajikistan. During the Hellenistic period it was a city in the Greco-Bactrian ...
, 2nd-3rd century BCE, Tajikistan National Museum
File:Dushanbe - National Museum - Clay Panel - Kofirqala, 7th c AD.jpg, Clay Panel - Kafir-kala, 7th century CE. Tajikistan National Museum
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Museums in Tajikistan
Buildings and structures in Dushanbe
National museums
Museums established in 1934
1934 establishments in the Soviet Union
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