Museum of Kazakh Musical Instruments, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Music is a soul of people embodied in elegant rows of notes and bars, international language comprehensible to anybody called to erase borders between people and countries.
Kazakh ethnos is a carrier of rich culture and ancient history. Music plays important role in everyday life of this nation; it is the reflection of the spiritual world, its aspirations: restless sounds of dombra picture endless Kazakh steppes or frisky run of a bay horse; melodic song of akyn build a firm connection between the past and present.
Keeping musical traditions is one of the most important tasks of the Museum of national musical instruments named after Ykylas that opened its doors in 1980 in the eastern suburbs of the Panfilov Park in Almaty. The museum occupied a wooden building constructed in 1908, at the same time with the Zenkov Cathedral nearby. The wooden house resembles a typical traditional Russian construction. Initially, during the period when Russia was ruled by Tsars, the building served as a meetings venue of the army administration, later was transformed into Official House and finally became a museum.
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