Karaganda Regional Museum, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
4.5 (28 reviews) Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #6 in Karaganda Speciality Museums
Must see and must do
We checked out the Karaganda Regional Museum about a week ago when in the city and it is a great place to visit! Very well set up, great guides, helpful material, lots in English too and a wonderful array of artifacts and culturally important exhibits of the region and its vibrant history. Of course they have to recognize the bad with the good so mentioned is the Karlag but if we weed out things that make us uncomfortable then we are not going to react when it starts to happen again so it is important to remember. The Hall of Space is fun to see as this country is rich in space exploration history from launches to cosmonauts and all sorts of space related items. Truly happy that we made the effort to visit the museum, it is great for all ages and we will be back.
Address
Erybaeva Street, Karaganda, Kazakhstan.
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Website
http://museum.karaganda.kz/index.php/en/museums/kar-obl-muzey
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 2:51
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4.5 based on (28 reviews)
Reviews
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4Howarth S 5:00 PM Apr 11, 2016
Worth a visit - such a variety of things to see
We spent about an hour in this museum. After buying tickets - about 90p - and permission to take photos - about 70p - we then had to give them up to the attendant, who had been watching us buy them, to be torn and marked. Such a variety of displays. I particularly liked the fossil section and the natural history room. It was great - but sad - to see the stuffed saiga deer - so rare now. Then there were historical costumes; archaeology; a room about cosmonauts and a display of locally made sweets. And a room about the gulags and the mining industries. A lot to take in. Many of the labels - but not all -were in English.
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4Madgrad96 5:00 PM Mar 15, 2018
Pleasant way to spend a couple of hours
I had some free time in Karaganda so I thought I would check out the museum. It takes up most of the two floors in the building (there is a small petting zoo on the ground floor, with separate admission), and the galleries are organized roughly chronologically. The first gallery presents the natural history of Karaganda Oblast, with collections of insects, mammals and birds, which was very interesting. The next gallery has fossils from the region, and then moves on to finds from paleolithic sites.The rest of the galleries show artifacts from different periods of history. Most of the item labels are in English as well as Kazakh and Russian - however, most of the interpretive panels are only in Kaz/Rus, which made putting the items in context a bit tricky. The second floor is devoted to Kazkh history since the Russian Revolution, and it is interesting to see the underlying tension between the Soviet and post-Soviet interpretation of history - there are several galleries featuring Heroes of the Soviet Union from the Second World War, and Heroes of Soviet industry, but there are also displays about the famine of the early 1930s and the Karlag internment camps (the headquarters building was not far from Karaganda) - which makes you realize how complicated history can be. There is also a gallery devoted to the geology of Karaganda Oblast, and one showing cosmonaut rations (very cool - tvorog in a tube!). The last gallery presents the life of the President while he was in Temirtau, a town not far from Karaganda. The museum was definitely worth the price of admission, and was a good way to spend some free time.
