For Visitors
Working Hours
Museum:
Monday — closed
Tuesday — Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Library:
Monday — closed
Tuesday — Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Visiting Rules
- When visiting the museum, it is necessary to observe the rules of conduct in public places.
- Read the full document: Museum Visiting Rules (PDF)
- Important: museum staff do not assess the market value of items (coins, books, paintings, etc.), as the museum is not an appraisal organization.
How to Get
Address: 52 T.Kayipbergenov St., Nukus, 230100 Republic of Karakalpakstan
Directions: Yandex.Map | Google Maps
Phone: +998 61 222 25 56, +998 61 222 61 28
Email: info@savitskymuseum.uz
Library Information
- Collection: about 11,000 books and magazines, mainly on art.
- Sections: antiquity, Renaissance, art of Europe, Asia, America, Africa; Soviet, Russian and foreign art; numismatics, archeology, ethnography, philology.
- Reading room: 17 seats, available for students, teachers, researchers and everyone (upon presentation of a student ID or document).
- Free admission.
- Collection replenishment— through donations, there is an electronic database and a selection of digitized books.
- Rules: observe silence, books are not for loan, handle the collection with care.
- Contacts: (+99861) 222-61-28
- The library cooperates with republican libraries, holds lectures, conferences, 'Hours of Spirituality'.
Media About Us
- City A.M. — How one man defied Stalin and risked the firing squad to conceal outlawed art from the Soviets
- Vice — Nukus, or the art the USSR didn’t want you to see
- The Guardian — Lost Louvre: Uzbekistan’s Savitsky Museum and its collection of banned art
- Wikipedia — Nukus Museum of Art
- Sputnik Uzbekistan — Exhibition at the Louvre: the splendor of the oases of Uzbekistan
- Uz24.uz — The Louvre and Uzbekistan
- Yuz.uz — The Louvre: the first exhibition dedicated to the rich heritage of Uzbekistan
- ISRS.uz — News of Uzbekistan
- Telegram — Makarenko about the museum