Museums & crafts — Samarkand
Collections, craft workshops, and souvenir shops
12 places
Workshop
Samarkand Artisans Centre
Working studios of blacksmiths, woodcarvers, leatherworkers and ganch…
House museum
House-Museum "Makhmudkhodzhi Behbudi"
The Mahmudkhoja Behbudi House-Museum in Samarkand is a memorial comple…
Workshop
Khujum Silk Carpet Factory
Hand-knotted silk carpets from unwinding the cocoon to the last knot:…
Museum
Wine Museum at the Khavrenko Winery (founded in 1868 by merchant D. L. Filatov)
An 1868 winery where Uzbek winemaking began again: the Biishty variety…
House museum
Sadriddin Ayni Memorial House Museum
The house of the writer modern Tajik prose begins with: from the Mir-A…
Science museum
Research Museum-Laboratory of Samarkand State University
A museum of Alisher Navoi and the history of learning: five sections f…
Museum
Mirzo Ulugbek Museum Complex
A museum beside the foundations of the 15th-century observatory: the s…
Research centre
International Research Center "Imam Bukhari"
A research centre beside the Imam Bukhari memorial complex: a manuscri…
Archaeology museum
Afrasiab Museum
A museum on the edge of the ancient site, home to the Hall of Ambassad…
Museum
Samarkand State Museum of the History of Culture of Uzbekistan
The umbrella body of museum Samarkand: eight museums, six monuments an…
House museum
Samarkand Regional Museum of Local Lore (House-Museum of the Merchant Abram Kalantarov)
The Kalantarov merchant mansion of the early 1900s, with carved ceilin…
Zoological museum
Zoological Museum of Samarkand State University
Some 5,000 animals and an insect collection covering 10,000 species —…