Architecture and attractions of Almaty -
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The Museum of Archeology is a cultural institution that preserves and studies the heritage of ancient times found during archeological excavations in Kazakhstan. The museum is located in Almaty at an altitude of 851 meters above sea level in a building built during the Soviet Union. It was opened in 1973 near the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography. The main goal of the museum is to show the path of development of human society in Kazakhstan from ancient times to the late Middle Ages through physical data. The museum contains many monuments that provide information about the level of cultural development of the tribes and peoples inhabiting the Kazakh land, their contribution to the treasury of world prosperity. The museum exhibits consist of four large sections, which are divided into periods and regions.
How to get there, visit -
The Museum of Archaeology is located at 28 Shevchenko Street, between Kunaev and Pushkin Streets, on the second floor in the building of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Medeu District, Almaty City, Republic of Kazakhstan.
GPS coordinates: 43°14'47N 76°57'11E
Museum Exposition -
The first part of the exhibition of the Museum of Archaeology is devoted to the theme "The First Communal Society and Its Disintegration". The stone exhibits presented here show that the land of Kazakhstan belongs to the first formed and developed region of mankind. The exposition presents flint stone tools found in Paleolithic settlements, as well as stone hammers, scrapers, etc., collected from Stone Age monuments located throughout Kazakhstan. Stone tools and weapons found during excavations in Karatau are collected. Among them are many spearheads, arrowheads, hand sledgehammers. The tools of the Neolithic and Eneolithic eras are made of stone: axes, spearheads, found during excavations in Eastern, Southern and Central Kazakhstan.
The second section of the archeology museum is dedicated to the monuments of the Bronze Age - the Andronovo culture, the Begazy-Dandybaev culture. Copper and lead deposits necessary for the manufacture of bronze tools were discovered in Eastern and Central Kazakhstan. It is not without reason that many settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze Age were discovered in these regions. The museum exposition presents spearheads, arrowheads, bronze and gold jewelry. Ceramics, axes, poleaxes and jewelry found in the mountains and burial grounds demonstrate clear signs of the Andronovo culture and its distinctive features in the southern and southeastern regions.
The third part of the archeology museum is dedicated to the early Iron Age (VIII-V century BC). The department contains weapons, harnesses, works of applied art, bone products and cast bronze bodies of animals collected during the study of cultural monuments, Tasmola. Of particular interest is the restored clothing of the "Golden Man" found in the Esik burial mound, which clearly shows the development of the Saka culture in the Zhetysu region. In 1997, a new example of the Golden Man's clothing was exhibited in the museum. Its original is kept in a special gold vault. Bronze sculptures based on skulls, restored in the workshop of M. M. Gerasimov, reproduce the faces of representatives of the tribes inhabiting the land of Kazakhstan.
The fourth section of the archeology museum is dedicated to medieval monuments. Here are ceramics, glass and copper products, works of applied art collected during research conducted in the medieval cities of Taraz, Almaly, Talgar, Aktobe, Baba-Ata. A special exhibition was created on the materials of the city of Otrar, which has been conducting research for many years. The aerial photograph of the city clearly shows traces of its construction in the 16th-18th centuries. A number of paintings and two models are presented, depicting the achievements of medieval construction art and architecture. These are: the mausoleums of Aisha-Bibi and Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. The museum's collection is replenished with new materials every year.
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