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State Art Museum by Savitsky!

The Karakalpak State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky is acknowledged by experts to contain one of the top art collections in Asia and is the second biggest and most significant collection of Russian Avant-Garde in the world.

The English newspaper "The Guardian" called the museum "one of the most outstanding museums of the world"; (Amelia Gentleman, "Saviysky's" secret hoard "The Guardian";, January 1, 2001). Other comments on the museum in Nukus state that "hellip";. It sheds light upon the history of Russian art and gives a genuine picture of artistic life of 1920-1930-s (Prof. Hansen-Leve, J-C. Marcade).

The story of how the museum was established and developed is as unique as the collection.
So, the significance and scale of the Nukus museum's collection of Russian Avant-Garde makes it according to the experts, the second museum in the world after the world-wide known Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.