Dioramas And Dead Things At The Andijan Museum Of History And Culture

What's a museum in Uzbekistan without a swashbuckling diorama or a parade of taxidermy? A boring museum. Hooray, Andijan's museum is definitely not boring.

Fly like an eagle. Or hawk. Or falcon. Or brown bird. Let's be safe with identifying it as some sort of brown bird.

Starting at the beginning, the Stone Age Man. Check out the mystery animal, monster, thingy that's about to emerge and attack. Rabid wombat? Moving forward in time, a depiction of a Silk Road era walled city. Love how the 2D painting does most of the 3D lifting.

More fun with 2D vs 3D. An Uzbek uprising in 1916. Basically, a mural with some columns and one and a half carts as foreground props.

Bird, perched on a massive stick jutting out of a mountain. Rats. Squeeze too hard and the stuffing pops out. And you might lose your talon. Ouch to everyone.

Shake that tail feather. With a little bush support.

The Andijan Museum Of History And Culture

Or Museum of Local Lore. The repository has several names. It's a typical museum for a small town in Uzbekistan, filled with old and recent history, handicrafts, maybe some paintings, a treasured plate. Time to take a tour.

Impressive outside. Enter now!

Before heading in, be sure to check out the elaborate, raised stone mural on the facade. Uzbek heritage in Soviet, Brutalist style. Inside, re-creating a painter's little studio.

Typical gallery room, filled with artifacts. Nice collection of wood cradles.

More old stuff. A classic, old chapan robe, in ikat style. A grave matter.

More paintings. Camels and fields of cotton, always good, local tropes.