Museum of ethnography and local history of Turkmenistan

Department of Nature and local history is made up of eleven sections. The first section is dedicated to the birth of the universe (which is one of the valuable exhibits Kunya Urgench meteorite) and the evolution of life on Earth, which shows the fossils and prints of ancient organisms found on the territory of Turkmenistan. Among them, it should be noted the unique footprints of dinosaurs (age about 150 million. Years), found on the south-eastern Turkmenistan (Hodzhapilskoe plateau), the world's only traces of ancient camel Arvan (age 2.5 million. S) that are in the Western Kopetdag , a jaw with a tooth fragment the forest elephant and the mandibular tooth Khazar elephant that lived in the territory of Turkmenistan 100-200 thousand years ago. In the department of ethnography wide open traditions and customs of the Turkmen people and presented the life, costumes, crafts, martial weapons, musical instruments, silver ornaments.