Museum of Chingiz Aitmatov

In this village famous writer Chingiz Aitmatov Torokulovich was born in 1928 and lived for nearly two decades. The museum is located in an old house, where he spent his childhood and youth of the great son of the Kyrgyz people. In the same village at the age of 14 years old Chingiz Aitmatov he became secretary of the village council. Museum of Life and creativity of Chingiz Aytmatovana in his native village of the writer in the village of Sheker was opened in 1978, the fiftieth anniversary of the writer and became a local landmark. The museum houses more than 1000 exhibits, some original manuscripts and articles, favorite books, as well as numerous photographs.