Alisher Navoiĭ nomidagi adabiët muzeĭi, Literature museum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The Alisher Navoi Museum of Literature is a museum in central Tashkent dedicated to the literary history of Uzbekistan and Central Asia. It holds manuscripts, historical documents, archaeological finds, and artworks that together cover many centuries of written culture from the region.
The museum opened in 1939 as a national exhibition to mark the 500th anniversary of Alisher Navoi's birth. It became a permanent institution in 1947 and has grown steadily since then.
The museum is named after Alisher Navoi, a poet who wrote in the Chagatai language and is considered the father of Uzbek literature. His manuscripts and portraits are displayed throughout the rooms, giving visitors a direct sense of how central his figure remains in the country today.
The museum is in a central part of Tashkent and easy to reach on foot or by public transport. Allow at least a couple of hours to move through the different rooms without feeling rushed.
The museum holds tens of thousands of documents related to writers from across the region, making it one of the largest literary archives in Central Asia. Among them are rare manuscripts written in several languages that were used across the region over many centuries.
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