Savitskiy Art Museum, Nukus, Uzbekistán
The Savitsky Museum’s collection possesses over 90,000 exhibits, including a collection of Russian avant-garde artists, the art of ancient Khorezm, complemented by excellent copies of some exhibits of Louvre in Paris.
The Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky does not yield to even the world-famous Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
According to experts and the world press, collection of the museum is the best art collections in the Asian region and has the world’s second-largest collection of Russian avant-garde.
British newspaper The Guardian called the museum “one of the outstanding museums in the world.” Al Gore and President Jacques Chirac called this museum: “One of the best museums in the world”.
Collection, stored in the Savitsky Museum, admired ambassadors, both former and present, of many leading world powers – Britain, France, Germany, Japan, as well as advisers and Cultural Attache of these countries, representatives of UNESCO, the United States.
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