The President of the country recently announced that three major museums of the country will be granted national status. One of them is the first state museum of Kazakhstan, which stood at the origins of the formation and development of the country's museum affairs - the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is considered one of the oldest and largest museums in Central Asia. This year the object turns 104 years old, and 95 years ago the museum was moved to Almaty.

According to the press service of the museum, the basis for the formation and development of the first fund and exposition collections of the oldest museum in Kazakhstan was the collection of the Orenburg Museum, created at the Neplyuev Military School "Museum of the Orenburg Region" in the 30s of the XIX century. After moving to Alma-Ata, the Zhetysu Museum, as well as the Museum of Religion and Atheism, were annexed to the Central Museum, which significantly replenished the museum's funds. In order for the work of the museum to receive national recognition, in 1944 it became known as the Central State Museum of the Kazakh SSR.

In different years, such famous historical figures worked at the Museum - historians, ethnographers, artists, museologists, writers, linguists, educators, public and political figures, including Akhmet Baitursynov, Abylkhan Kasteev, Alkey Margulan, Alexander Bernshtam, Vladimir Dal, Yuri Dombrovsky, Nikolai Khludov and others.

Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Almaty

Currently, the museum carries out activities in various directions: cultural and educational, exposition and exhibition, storage, research, restoration, collecting, accounting, editorial and publishing and actively develops international cooperation.

Stone Age (from the exposition of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

The fund of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan has 273,611 storage units, 28,838 of which are included in the register of national cultural heritage.

N. Khludov "Nomadism in a storm" (from the fund of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

It should be noted that museums always remain custodians of human history and cultural heritage, as they conduct extensive scientific, educational and educational work.

Pile carpet. Beginning of XX century (from the fund of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan)

The fund of museums of Kazakhstan contains more than 4,000,000 museum objects, of which 360 thousand are objects of national cultural heritage.