The State Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan is located in Tashkent .
| State Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan | |||
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| Established | 1937 | ||
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| Address | 700031, Uzbekistan , Tashkent , st. Rakatboshi, 15 | ||
| Site | artmuseum.uz | ||
It was founded in 1937 on the basis of a temporary exhibition of handicrafts. The museum’s exhibition funds contain over 4 thousand exhibits that reveal the history of decorative art in Uzbekistan: wood carving, ceramics, embossing, art of jewelers, gold seamstresses, embroiderers, samples of mass production of local industry.
Museum Building History
Until the beginning of the 21st century, the museum was located in the former palace of the Russian diplomat A. A. Polovtsev [1] .
The building was purchased for A.A. Polovtsev by his secretary M.S. Andreev on his behalf from the Tashkent merchant Ivanov . Under the leadership of Andreev, a significant restructuring of the interiors in the Oriental style was carried out in the house. The architect of perestroika was A.A. Burmeister. This house was known in Tashkent as the "Polovtsev House".
During the First World War, captured Austrian officers lived in this building. In the twenties of the XX century after the revolution, the building housed an orphanage until the mid-thirties. Subsequently, various organizations were located in the house, including a training center for ganch carving, embossing, and an embroidery workshop; since July 1937, the house housed the Handicraft Museum, and now the Museum of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan.
The building is an example of architectural and decorative art. Built at the end of the XIX century. Architectural decor, ganch carving, woodcarving and wood painting were done by Uzbek folk artists: Usta T. Arsankulov, A. Kazymdzhanov (Tashkent), Usta Shirin Muradov (Bukhara), Usta A. Palvanov (Khiva), Usta Abdullah (Rishtan).
In 1941, 1961 the building was restored. In 1960, it received the name "Permanent Exhibition of Applied Arts of Uzbekistan".
In 1997, the museum was transferred to the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan and received the status of "State Museum of Applied Art".
In 1970, the museum building was reconstructed.