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China National Silk Museum

CNSM (China National Silk Museum), near the West Lake in Hangzhou, a world heritage on UNESCO’s list, is one of the first state-level museums in China and one of the largest textile and costume museums in the world.

The Central State Museum of Kazakhstan

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan is one of the largest museums in Central Asia. Its collections were originally displayed in the 1830s in the city of Orenburg, where they were organised by the Nepliuevskii Military Academy as the 'Orenburg Region Museum'. One of the organisers was the famous linguist and author of the 'Explanatory Dictionary', Vladimir Dal.

Tang West Market Museum

© Tang West Market Cultural Industries Investment Group

Tang West Market Museum is the first civilian on-site museum in China, established on the site of the West market of the Tang chang’an city. The museum occupies a total area of 15mus (mu: Chinese measurement for area, about 163 acres) land, with a construction area of 32000㎡ and display area of 8000 ㎡; including 2500㎡ on-site preservation area.

National Museum of Korea

© The National Museum of Korea

The National Museum of Korea is the most representative and extensive museum in Republic of Korea. The museum holds an immense collection: it has more than 310,000 historically valuable and highly aesthetic relics ranging from the Paleolithic Age to the early 20th century, and more than 12,000 masterpieces of its collection are always on display in its permanent exhibition hall.

Bukhara Museum

 

The Bukhara museum was established in November 8, 1922. Since 1945, the museum has been situated in the Ark citadel, the former residence of the Bukharan emirs, which is where the main office of the museum is located.

The Iraq Museum

The Museum is dedicated to the collection and interpretation of the history of Iraq and its environs. The collections consist of mainly man-made objects covering the past 7,000 years. The types of objects in the collection represent Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Islamic cultures and include objects made of glass, pottery, metal, ivory, and parchment, among others.

Azerbaijan Carpet Museum

Azerbaijani applied arts, especially carpet weaving, occupy a special place in the history of its national culture.

The most widespread folk art is carpet weaving. It made its way into the everyday life of the people of Azerbaijan and turned into a symbol for the nation. Because of their high aesthetic value, fleecy and pileless carpets, decorated with various patterns and signs, are used to decorate the walls and floors of marquees, huts, homes, nomads' tents, and other buildings.

Golden Lists of the Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination

The Palace Examination was the final stage in the sequence of civil service recruitment examinations during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). This examination was prepared and presided over by the Emperor in person. The Golden Lists are the name of the successful candidates and were written on a sheet of yellow paper. They are representative documents of the examination system of the Qing as it had emerged after many centuries of evolution since the Sui Dynasty (581A.D.).

Georgian Byzantine Manuscripts

© National Centre of Manuscripts

This collection is of an enormous importance as it is widely acknowledged that the Georgian manuscript heritage contains unique material for Byzantine cultural development. These works have preserved the samples lost in Greek and other languages, while preserving important references to Byzantine authors that replenish the life and work of those writers and unknown writers of the Byzantine literary history.

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