Central State Museum Of The Republic Of Kazakhstan

Very nice informatiw. museum is great. must try to understand the Kazakh cultural history.

The building is impressive and located in a lovely park. The museum itself is okay, there are a few nice objects but nothing that will blow your mind. Mostly recreations rather than actual archeological artifacts. There was a very charming series of dioramas about the various ethnic groups living in Kazakhstan. Go if you have the time, but don’t worry about missing it, if coming here strains your itinerary.

National museum, slightly strange though. There's a hall in the middle where there was a Christmas market in december, surrounded by the museum rooms around. Many of the rooms were closed. The only exhibits I could access were an ethnographic collection, an exhibition on Kazakh independence and a bunch of stuffed animals.

Enormous stylish building with interesting spaces to fill yet it looks like a High school end of the year science-history fair. This Museum is so badly curated !!! The information in English, French or German are whimsical. This Museum is a pale echo to the one in Nursultan (Astana). The reward to go there is located on the 2nd floor with bits and bobs on the Soviet era spacial program and, possibly, one if the 3 Sputnik prototype... no information available!!! The Museum shop is unbelievably lame.

It costs 500 tenge (1.25 euro) for a foreigner to visit this museum. It has 7 separate halls and you can visit 4 halls for the base price, other rooms are 1000 tenge each. Out of the 4 rooms we could see, one room was used for president's propaganda. From the room's name it was supposed to be about modern Kazakhstan, but president was in every picture of that room (so roughly couple thousand pictres). There is also very little information in English and not much more of it in Kazakh or Russian. Information is also not very consistent and we did not learn a lot about the Kazakhstan from the museum. It looked more like a storage place for historical items. A guide is available in English, but we did not take one.