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Ark Citadel Local-History Museum
The main branch — three departments (History, Art & Ethnography, Nature) inside the fortified citadel that ruled Bukhara for nine centuries.
Sitorai Mohi Xossa is one of eighteen branches. Together they hold over 150 000 objects.
The main branch — three departments (History, Art & Ethnography, Nature) inside the fortified citadel that ruled Bukhara for nine centuries.
This museum. Summer palace of the last Emirs of Bukhara, opened as a museum in 1931.
Founded in 1982 by initiative of Sharof Rashidov in the former Azov-Don Bank building (built 1912, architects Margulis and Sakovich) over the Shahrud canal.
Documents, manuscripts and court paraphernalia tracing the legal traditions of Mawarannahr and the Bukharan Emirate.
From the medieval hauz (city reservoir) to the modern aqueduct — how an oasis city engineered water across one thousand years.
Bukharan, Turkmen and Iranian carpets — knot-by-knot wool grammars of nomadic and settled life across two centuries.
Archaeological finds from one of the great Sogdian merchant cities, on the western edge of the Bukhara oasis.
Local-history collection of one of the oldest rural districts north of Bukhara, on the ancient Caravan road.
Manuscripts, divans and printed editions — from Rudaki and Ibn Sina through to the twentieth century.
Centre of the Naqshbandi Sufi order founded in Bukhara — the spiritual lineage, texts and dhikr practice that shaped Central Asian Islam.
The hand at work: reed pens, inks, papers and the schools of nastaliq, naskh and shikasta as practised by Bukharan scribes.
A working forge as well as a museum — anvil, bellows and tongs alongside the daggers, locks and farm implements they once produced.
Devoted to the great hadith-scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari (810–870) — manuscripts of the «Sahih», related documents and the masterʼs lineage.
Avicenna’s «Canon of Medicine» in early Bukharan editions, instruments and herbaria from the medical tradition he founded.
An entire merchant household preserved as-was: living quarters, workshops, account-books and the courtyard around which it all turned.
Composer Mutal Burhonov’s house, gifted by the Bukhara regional authorities in 1997 and opened as a museum on 28 August 2018. Four rooms — four sections of his life and work.
Doors, ceilings, columns and screens — the carved-wood corpus of Bukhara, with master-attribution where the workshops can be traced.
Sogdian-era painted clay from Varakhsha alongside the long Bukharan tradition of slipware, lustreware and blue-and-white.
Source: master’s dissertation by Sh.K. Roziqulova, K. Behzod NRDI, Tashkent, 2026.