Mary Provincial Regional and History Museum, Regional history museum in Mary, Turkmenistan.
The museum occupies a three-story marble building with six exhibition halls across 4,000 square meters of floor space. Over 40,000 regional artifacts are displayed, documenting local history from ancient to modern times.
The museum was founded in 1968 as a historical and revolutionary museum, then relocated to a new white marble building in 2008. This move represented a significant expansion of its collection storage and display capabilities.
The ethnography section displays traditional Turkmen craftsmanship through jewelry, carpets, and silver objects from different periods. A white yurt installation shows how people lived in nomadic times.
The building is easy to navigate with clearly marked exhibition areas that flow logically from one to the next. Visitors should allow several hours to see the main collections without rushing through.
The collection includes objects from the third millennium BCE, including a tabernacle from Gonur and bronze figures of Zoroastrian deities. These pieces come from ancient Margiana and offer rare insights into early religious practices.
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