Tour to Nukus: the Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky

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Art Museum named after Savitsky

Art Museum named after Savitsky

Art Museum named after Savitsky

Nukus Tour: Savitsky Museum of Art

Nukus Tour: Savitsky Museum of Art – Secrets of the Remote Desert

Duration: 2 days
Cities: Tashkent, Nukus
Prices: US$ 495 for 1 person traveling alone.
              US$ 380 per person, for 2 persons traveling together and staying in double room.
              Single supplement - US$ 20

It is a cultural 2-day Tour to Nukus, the capital of Autonomous Republic Karakalpakstan, a part of Uzbekistan. The city is located in a remote desert region. It is surprisingly to know that, far from the center, there is the unique Museum named after Savitsky, which keeps the world’s second largest and most important collection of Soviet artists- avant-gardists of the beginning of the XX century. There you will not only be shown the unique pictures of eminent Soviet avant-gardists such as A. Volkov, Usto Muminov, A. Serov, U. Tansykbaev etc., but also told a story about tragic destinies of the artists and how these pictures found the way into this museum. Along with the Soviet avant-garde, the Museum has a magnificent collection of arts and crafts of the Karakalpaks and peoples of Central Asia. Besides, you will be offered to choose a trip to the ruins of defense fortresses of Ancient Khorezm, scattered about the desert, or a trip to the former fishing village Muynaq, once situated on the shore of the deep Aral Sea, and after its shallowing becoming a phantom township, a “ship cemetery” as oratorically named by the resident population.

Tour Summary:

Day 1: Tashkent – Nukus
Transfer to the airport at 5.30 a.m. and departure to Nukus at 7.10 a.m. Arrival in Nukus at 9.55. Check in to the hotel. Sightseeing tour around Nukus and visit to the State Art Museum named after I.V. Savitsky. It hosts the  world's second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art and one of the largest collection of applied art of Central Asia. Free time. Overnight in the hotel.

Day 2: Nukus – Tashkent
Breakfast. Sightseeing trip to ruins of ancient Khorezm fortresses: Ayaz-Kala (4th century BC),  Toprak-Kala (1st century BC) and Kizyl-Kala. Return to Nukus in the afternoon. Free time. Transfer to the airport at 7.30 p.m. and departure to Tashkent at 09.05 p.m. Arrival in Tashkent at 11.20 p.m. End of the tour.

Note: on tourists’ request the tour program around ancient Khorezm fortresses can be changed to the trip to former fishermen's town Muynak, which has been situated on the shores of the Aral Sea. Today Muynak's port is the well-known "cemetery of ships".

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