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Top Sights
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Savitsky Museum ................................. B1
come here, other than taking in the general
sense of hopelessness and desolation.
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¨Sights
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Savitsky¨Museum¨
MUSeUM
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222 25 56; www.savitskycollection.org; Rzaev
127; adult/student 15,000S/10,000S, camera
75,000S, guide 10,000S;
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9am-1pm & 2-5pm Mon-
Fri, 10am-4pm Sat & Sun)
The Savitsky Museum
houses one of the most remarkable art col-
lections in the former Soviet Union. The
museum owns some 90,000 artefacts and
pieces of art - including more than 15,000
paintings - only a fraction of which are ac-
tually on display. About half of the paintings
were brought here in Soviet times by ren-
egade artist and ethnographer Igor Savitsky,
who managed to work within the system to
preserve an entire generation of avant-garde
work that was proscribed and destroyed
elsewhere in the country for not conform-
ing to the socialist realism of the times. The
paintings found protection in these isolated
backwaters (Nukus, after all, being literally
the last place you'd look for anything) and
it's interesting to hear how this nonconform-
ist museum survived during the Soviet era.
An English-language guided tour can really
help to contextualise the collection and acts
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Sleeping
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Hotel Nukus ...........................................C3
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Jipek Joli................................................. B1
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Jipek Joli Annexe .................................. B1
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Rahnamo Hotel .....................................C3
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Eating
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Bes Qala .................................................B3
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Mona Lisa...............................................A3
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Sheraton Cafe .......................................C2
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Information
Ayim Tour ...................................... (see 3)
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Post & Telephone Office ......................C3
Savitsky Museum .......................... (see 1)
Troya Internet ............................... (see 2)
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Transport
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Airline Booking Office...........................C2
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Bazaar Marshrutka Stop .....................A2
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Buses to Airport .................................... D1
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Buses to Train Station ......................... D1
as an introduction to the fascinating stories
behind many of the paintings.
The museum has impressive archaeologi-
cal, ethnographic and folk art collections to
match its collection of paintings, as well as
