The National Museum of Turkmentistan (Saparamyrat Türkmenbaşy adyndaky Türkmenistanyň Milli muzeyi), also known as the Sparmurat Turkmenbashi Museum, is a museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

 in Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

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

Archaeology

The museum has a large archaeological collection. Prominently displayed items include those from Old Nisa and from Merv.

Numismatics

The museum has an unpublished collection of coins associated with its archaeological collection.

External links

• Ashgabat Photo Gallery