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Art Museum Attractions In Almaty

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Almaty , formerly known as Alma-Ata and Verny , is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,797,431 people, about 8% of the country's total population. It served as capital of the Kazakh state in its various forms from 1929 to 1997, under the influence of the then Soviet Union and its appointees. Alma-Ata was the host city for a 1978 international conference on Primary Health Care where the Alma Ata Declaration was adopted, marking a paradigm shift in global public health. In 1997, the government relocated the capital to Astana in the north of the country, which is about 12 hours away by train. Almaty continues as the major commercial and...
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  • 2. A. Kasteyev Museum of Fine Arts Almaty
    The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty.The museum opened on 16 September 1976, based on the collections of the Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery and the Republic Museum of Decorative and Applied Art . In 1984, the museum was renamed to honour the Kazakh artist Abilkhan Kasteev . The museum has a collection of over 23,000 works, including historic and contemporary Kazakhstan art, works from the Soviet era , Russian artworks , Western European art , and art from East Asia .The Kasteyev museum is especially noted for its collection of late works of distinguished sculptor Isaac Itkind and Kazakh painting and sculpture, likely to be the largest in the world, including works by N. Nurmukhammedov, M. Kim, K. Yeserkeyev, K. Mullashev, T. Abuov...
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