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An exhibition of Central Asian art opens in the Hermitage

The State Hermitage hosted the grand opening of the “Reserve gallery of Central Asian art monuments of the II-XIX centuries from the Hermitage funds. From India to China”.

A new stage of the project "Architectural epigraphy of Uzbekistan" starts

Since 2010, the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of Cultural Heritage has been working on the implementation of a large-scale project "Architectural Epigraphy of Uzbekistan", which has no analogues in the Islamic world. For the first time, work was carried out on a complete decoding of the epigraphy of historical monuments, and the publication of the data obtained in the format of illustrated book-albums.

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Rare samples of Uzbek ethnic music will return to their homeland thanks to the multimedia edition

The World Society, with the support of the international oil service company Eriell Group, is preparing a chic gift for connoisseurs of Uzbek ethnic music: the project’s working group is conducting active search and research in the audio fund of the Berlin phonogram archive of the Ethnological Museum of Germany.

Museum of Asia and the Pacific to open an exposition of Central Asian ceramics in 2022

In the spring of 2022, an exposition of Central Asian ceramics will open at the Museum of Asia and the Pacific.

A unique album dedicated to the masterpieces of art of Uzbekistan to be released

The World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan announces the imminent release of a unique series "Masterpieces of Art of Uzbekistan", which combines albums dedicated to ceramics, art metal, artistic textiles and fine arts.

The II International Crafts Festival to be held in Qoqand

A government resolution “On measures to organize and conduct the II International Crafts Festival in the city of Qoqand” was adopted.

Assouline publishes newest volume Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists

Assouline publishes the newest volume, which provides a compelling look into of one of the world’s most eclectic art collections that may have once been lost forever, with the title: Uzbekistan: Avant-Garde Orientalists (August 2021).

Uzbekistan plans to publish a multivolume catalog with a complete collection of architectural monuments

Numerous architectural monuments, medieval buildings of cult, residential and civil architecture of the late IX-early XX centuries, erected in Islamic times, tell us about the glorious past and never cease to delight historians, archaeologists, art historians and ordinary tourists.

The plans of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan include the creation of a book-album dedicated to subjects

The plans of the World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan are to create a book-album dedicated to the objects of folk applied art of Uzbekistan stored in the collections of museums in Great Britain

An album dedicated to the unique man-made masterpieces of the Karakalpak people is being prepared for printing

The World Society for the Study, Preservation and Popularization of the Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan is preparing for printing a colorful album dedicated to the unique man-made masterpieces of the Karakalpak people. Currently, the texts are being finalized and the layout of photographic materials is underway.

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