Republican Museum of Musical Instruments named after Ykylas

The "Republican Museum of Kazakh Folk Musical Instruments of the Kazakh SSR" was organized in 1980 by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR of August 1, 1980. The museum opened on April 24, 1981. In the funds of the new museum, there were over 400 storage units and over 40 types and varieties of Kazakh folk musical instruments ^{[1] [2]} . The original place where the museum was located was the historic two-story building of the former house of the aksakal Seydalin , at 99 Panfilov Street, corner Zhibek Zholy.

In order to popularize folk musical culture in 1981, the folklore-ethnographic ensemble Sazgen was created at the museum.

In 1983, the museum moved to the building of the former House of Officer Assembly on Zenkova 24, where it is located today ^[3] .

On March 11, 1990, the government of the Kazakh SSR decided to give the museum the name of Ykhylas Dukenuly , the Kazakh folk composer kyusha , kobyzist, one of the founders of the kobyz school.

In 2012, the "Republican Museum of Kazakh Folk Musical Instruments named after Ykylas" was transferred from the republican property and the administration of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the communal property of the Akimat of Almaty. After that, the Department of Culture of the Akimat renamed the museum, the words “Republican” and “Kazakh” disappeared from the name.

In 2012-2013, the museum underwent a major reconstruction, instead of the required restoration of buildings that are architectural monuments ^[4] . During the reconstruction, the internal historical interior of the building was completely changed and lost.

The museum exhibits musical instruments of outstanding performers of the past by improvising singers and composers Abay, Birzhan, Kurmangazy, Makhambet, Shashu-bai, Dina, Kazangap, Nartay, Kenen, Seytek, Muryn-zhyrau, Kyzyl-zhyrau, Zhambul, Boltirik-zhyrau, .Zhubanova, A. Kashaubaev, A. Khasenov, D. Myktybaev and many others ^[5]

The Museum of Musical Instruments consists of several rooms:

• The origins of folk music - the history of musical instruments of Turkic peoples
• Hall of wind and percussion-noise instruments - talks about such instruments as daulylpaz, dudyga, shyn, asatayak, double, braid dunkildek and shindauyl
• Hall of Masters - prize-winning tools of the first Republican competition of craftsmen for the manufacture of tools "Anyz dombyra"
• Kobyz Hall
• Hall of musical instruments of Turkic peoples - 27 musical instruments of 14 Turkic-speaking countries
• Hall of musical instruments of the peoples of the world - 81 musical instruments from 27 countries of the world

The building of the officer meeting was built in 1908. The author of the project was the architect A. P. Zenkov , who completed the building in the “Ropetov style”, when the author used the details of old Russian wooden architecture in the decoration of the buildings.

In 1913, the building was used as an exhibition pavilion of the first agricultural and industrial exhibition of Semirechye.

From 1918 to 1926 - a postal and telegraph office.

In 1927-1929 - the cinema "Red Star".

During the Great Patriotic War, creative groups of evacuated Soviet satire theaters, muses performed here. comedies, operettas, with the participation of R. Zelena, A. Raikin, N. Ruban.

Then the District House of Officers of the Central Asian Military District ^[6] .

In 1980-1982, the building was the "Republican Puppet Theater" ^{[7] [8]} .

Since 1983, the “Republican Museum of Kazakh Folk Musical Instruments of the Kazakh SSR” has been located in the building (since 2012, the “Ykylas Museum of Folk Musical Instruments”).

Architecture

Rectangular in plan, the wooden, sheathed building is a tower. Windows - tall, tricuspid, rectangular, abundantly framed by carved platbands; the facades are decorated with overlaid wooden carvings. The three-axis space-planning solution highlighted on the main facade by risalits. The central risalit is accented by a two-story tented completion, with elegantly carved platbands of dormer windows. The upper tier is through, with a four-pitched roof covering, supported by carved columns. Lateral risalits have a pitched metal roof. The main entrance is emphasized by a keeled high visor of the porch, resting on carved racks. Small square windows were used in the upper tier of the tower volume. Attic windows have a keeled finish. ^[five]

During the 1979 reconstruction, Kazakh national patterns were added to the wooden carvings: “agash” - the tree of life, “shynzhara” - traveling waves, “uzilmes” - curly stalk, “otkizbe” - horn-like curl.

Monument Status

On April 4, 1979, by the decision of the executive committee of the Alma-Ata City Council of People's Deputies, the building of the House of Officers (at that time) acquired the status of a Monument of History and Culture and was taken under state protection ^[9] .

January 26, 1982 the building (at that time the Republican Puppet Theater) was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of republican significance of the Kazakh SSR ^[10]

November 25, 1993 became part of the Almaty State Historical, Architectural and Memorial Reserve . New construction is prohibited on the territory of the reserve. Reconstruction of objects is possible only with the permission of the Ministry of Culture of Kazakhstan ^[11] .

On September 27, 2006, the akim of the city of Imangali Tasmagambetov issued a resolution by which he proposed to the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan to exclude the museum building (24 Proletarskaya St.) from the State list of historical and cultural monuments in Almaty as a monument of local importance ^[12] . This decision was rejected, since the building was a monument of history and culture of republican significance since 1982.

Before the collapse of the USSR, the museum was managed by the Ministry of Culture of the Kazakh SSR. Then it was under republican jurisdiction and was managed by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Then, in 2012, he was removed from the republican administration of the Ministry of Culture and transferred to the communal jurisdiction of the Culture Department of the Almaty Akimat.

• LOCATION: MUSEUM OF KAZAKH FOLK MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS