The State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent is one of the oldest museums both in the capital and in all of Central Asia. Formerly the Lenin Museum, it dates back to the founding of the Turkestan Folk Museum.
The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan was opened on 12 July 1876 under its original name – Folk Museum of Turkestan, founded at the request of Russian scientists and lovers of natural history, anthropology and ethnography.