Report of visit

Ministry of Higher Education and Secondary Education of
Uzbekistan
The National University of Uzbekistan name after Mirzo Ulugbek
Faculty of Foreign Philology

REPORT OF VISIT

To the State museum of history of Uzbekistan

Date: 15.05.2023
Group : 204
Intern student: Absalomov Nurmat
Internship superviser: Sharipova Muxlisa


TASHKENT – 2023
REPORT OF VISIT
To the “State museum of history of Uzbekistan”

of Absalomov Nurmat, student of 204 group , in the speciality
“Pholology and Teaching Languages ( English)”

State museum of history of Uzbekistan, one of the oldest museums of the Central Asia, was founded 136 years ago. The museum fund lists over 250,000 exhibits, including over 60,000 archeological, over 80,000 numismatic and 16,000 ethnographical items reflecting Uzbek history from the primitive times up to the present.

There are 4 floors in the museum. The first floor hosts an exhibition gallery for modern exhibitions of various themes held periodically. The exhibits on the second floor tell the history of Uzbekistan from the ancient times up to the Timurid era. Here you can see first tools, mirrors, jewellery, household items extending back over 1,000 years, as well as exponents of mediaeval epoch in the Central Asia, an evidence of flourishing of science, poetry, trade at that time.

Unique museum exhibits include remains of a primitive man from the Sel-Ungur cave (1.5 million years B.C.); stone sculpture of two snakes found on the territory of the Fergana valley (2nd millennium B.C.); décor of the Bukhara governors’ palace of 6th -8th centuries; fragments of 7th - 8th century mural painting found in Afrosiab settlement; 10th century carved wooden column from Oburdon village.