01 Aug 2008

Savitsky Collection, Nukus Museum, Nukus, Uzbekistan
Nukus Museum, Nukus, UZ
Supplied note: "The Friends of the Nukus Museum Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the museum's updated website [at the URL below], which provides an overview of its history, extensive details of several dozen artists as well as details on seeing the collection. Opened in 1966, the Nukus Museum (the Savitsky Collection) houses a collection of over 82,000 items, ranging from antiquities from Khorezm to Karakalpak folk art, Uzbek fine art and the second largest collection of Russian avant-garde art in the world. It represents the life's work of Igor Savitsky, whose legacy, which includes thousands of artistic and cultural treasures on permanent exhibition, make it one of the most interesting repositories of ancient and modern art. - dr."
Site contents:
* History; * Gallery; * Visit the Museum; * News & Events; * Library; * Education; * Book Store; * Friends of the Museum.
A bi-lingual (EN, RU) website.
URL http://www.savitskycollection.org
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Dion Richard (richardrdion--at--yahoo.com), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100