Educational Resources

In recent years, the Museum has been working with a number of agencies to train and educate people about the Savitsky Collection. For example, the British Council supported the development and implementation of a Museum on Wheels programme which organizes mobile exhibitions for schools in Karakalpakstan whose children are unable to visit Nukus. The programme reached approximately 30,000 people over the three year period, 2003-05. The Swiss Economic Cooperation Organization (SECO) is financing a scaled-down version of the same programme during 2007-08.

The Young Art Historian program (also British Council funded) served as a way for forty young people to learn more about the Museum, not only its Collection which spans over two millennia, but also an understanding of how a museum works and is operated. In addition, the Museum has concentrated on reviving traditional handicrafts, including embroidery, wood carving, designing national Karakalpak instruments, carpet weaving and the making of traditional yurts.