National Museum of the Republic of Tajikistan to them. Behzod

The museum has the largest collection of the museum complex in the country, which has more than 50,000 exhibits on the history, culture and nature of Tajikistan. The collection includes paintings, sculptures and drawings, samples of flora, fauna and mineralogical collections, as well as archaeological monuments, ethnography, literature, numismatics, fragments of outstanding architectural monuments. Among the masterpieces of the museum's collection - works of traditional arts and crafts of Tajiks XIX-XX centuries, unique archaeological sites of the Neolithic, Bronze Age until the Middle Ages.. Of particular value is the numismatic collection of the museum, which consists of pre-Islamic (the Greco-Bactrian, Kushan, Sasanian, buharhudatskim) coins and coins Islamic period (Arab, Samanid, Karakhanid, Seljuk, Khorezm, Timurid and mangytskih). Rich collection of epigraphic monuments of the museum, where there are examples of Greek, Pahlavi, Sogdian and Arabic inscriptions. Chronologically museum collection covers the period III millennium BC. e. before the beginning of century XX I. Among archaeological collections particular interest terracotta sculpture Sogda (mid I millennium BC. E.).