House Museum Kamal Khuzhandi, Sughd Province, Tajikistan
4.5 (8 reviews) Spent Ranking #9 in Khujand Speciality Museums
Not just a museum, an entire life
The museum of Kamoli Khujandi, the 14th century Persian poet after whom the city is named, is less about Khujandi and more about traditional life in Tajikistan. It consists of a traditional courtyard home, with rooms dedicated to the many functions of life in that era. Women’s quarters, men’s areas, scholars study room, kitchen, sleeping and socializing rooms, each has its distinct set of furnishings. There are craft demonstrations of weaving Atlas fabric as well as rooms about Khujandi. Altogether a well-put together museum explaing not only the poet Kamoli Khujandi but how people in his era lived.
Address
Syrdari, Khujand 735700 Tajikistan
Current local date and time now
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 16:37
User Ratings
4.5 based on (8 reviews)
Reviews
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5M A 5:00 PM May 23, 2018
Artistic Rooms Decor and Fine Library Display
This house museum is beautiful with rooms in the living quarters for men and women decorated richly in traditional guanch and painted florals on walls and ceilings. Most rooms have deeply carved wood doors demonstrating the Tajik woodworking mastery. The library displays manuscripts and books in the walls in traditional open carved decorated cabinets as well as in glass cases in the center of the room. The ceiling in this room is also deeply carved dark wood, different from any other room in the residence. The women's courtyard has both the indoor and outdoor kitchen and the women's decorated living quarters. The front garden has fruit trees and a decorative square pool which faces near the KK Garden nearby. A rear garden has fruit trees and a well and pavilion. A storage room shows granary and dried meats and fruits hanging. The staff present when I visited spoke Tajik and Russian. Perhaps due to translation difficulty on my part, I am unclear on why this is called a House Museum because usually these are places where the artist/poet/writer actually lived and worked and preserved for a sense of the life and times. This structure looks relatively new or has been totally refurbished, and the only apparent truly historic objects I saw were the manuscripts in the library museum and perhaps the wall decor, so the sense of history and living presence was not there for me and it felt artificial. It seems more like a re-creation of what he might have lived like had it all survived and had he not gone off in self-imposed love exile and died abroad. However, the artistic skill involved in creating these walls and ceilings is superb so it is well worth a visit.
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5yns_10 5:00 PM Nov 16, 2019
Favourite visit of our trip
We were so impressed by this fabulous house museum which gave a great insight into how people lived in the traditional housing complexes. Highly recommend.
