State Art Museum of Uzbekistan

It was named as the "Tashkent Art Museum" in 1924 and finally the "Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan" in 1935.

• Name — Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan • Location — 16, Amir Temur Avenue, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, 100060 • Type — Art museum, Russian art, Ukrainian art, Uzbek art, Western art • Director — Fayziyeva Vasila • Website — http: www.stateartmuseum.uz/

The museum was established in 1918 and was located in former palace of Grand Duke Nicholas Konstantinovich of Russia, a grandson of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, until 1935. It was moved to the People's House in 1935. In 1974, the People's House building was demolished and replaced by the current building.

• Illustration — Tashkent. Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan till 1935. • Illustration — Tashkent. Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan till 1966. • Illustration — Tashkent. Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan today Three Soviet architects, I Abdulov, A.K. Nikiforov, and S. A. Rosenblum designed the new building to replace the previous museum on the site of the People's University which was a destroyed during the 1966 Tashkent earthquake. Planned in the form of a huge cube, the sides are divided into rectangles which are separated by metal frames, and lined with aluminum sheets on the outside. The lower part of the building and the entrance are decorated with polished gray marble. The upper part is glazed with chrom-brugnatellite, smoothing the sunlight and setting indoor matte illumination. The building was completed in 1974 and renovated in 1997. In July 2026, the Museum of Arts, along with nine other modernist sites in Tashkent, was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

The museum's chief curator, Mirfayz Usmonov, was caught in 2014 selling artworks in the black market for the past 15 years and replacing them with copies. He was prosecuted and sentenced to nine years in jail. Two other museum employees were sentenced to eight years each.

• Illustration — Andrei Belloli, Bather (before 1881) • Illustration — Dmitry Levitsky, Portrait of A. Voronzova (1761–1784) (1780s) • Illustration — Nikolay Karazin, Falcon hunt (before 1908) • Illustration — David Teniers the Younger, Monkey barbers (1659) • Illustration — Vladimir Borovikovsky, Portrait of A. Volkonsky (before 1825) • Illustration — Vasily Tropinin, Portrait of A. Obolensky (1845) • Illustration — Nikolay Yaroshenko, Expulsion (1883) • Illustration — Cornelis Saftleven, Peasantry (17th century)