Savitsky Atyndaghy Sanatat Museum

The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky - also recognized, definitely, because the Nukus Museum - hosts the sector's second biggest series of Russian avant garde art. It is also home to one in every of the largest collections of archeological gadgets and folk, carried out and modern art originating from Central Asia. Igor Savitsky, a Russian born in Kiev and the Museum's founder, first went to Karakalpakstan in 1950 as the artist within the Khorezm Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition led by using the sector well-known scientist, Sergei P. Tolstov.

Fascinated by the culture and those of the steppe, he stayed on after the dig, methodically accumulating Karakalpak carpets, costumes, rings, and other works of art. At the identical time, he started gathering the drawings and art work of artists connected to Central Asia, consisting of the ones of the Uzbek faculty, and all through the overdue-1950s/early-1960s, the ones of the Russian avant garde which the Soviet government were then banishing and destroying.

Today, the Museum homes a set totaling approximately 90,000 objects, along with graphics, paintings and sculptures, in addition to thousands of artifacts, textiles and jewellery, starting from the antiquities of Khorezm’s ancient civilization to the works of modern-day Uzbek and Karakalpak artists.