Museum of Fine Arts

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Museum of Fine Arts - one of the largest repositories of national values of Turkmenistan. The museum contains works of both well-known and apprentice local painters, graphic artists, sculptors, ceramics master and jeweller. The collection provides all sorts of genres, styles and trends of contemporary fine and applied arts. In the museum are also presented national products of arts and crafts, samples of traditional national costumes, household items of the  XIX-XX^th centuries. Here are kept the best examples of female terracotta figurines and unique stone sculptures of animals, as well as stone vessels with relief figures and ornamental frescos, which decorating the houses and shrines of the ancient inhabitants of Yylgynly,  recovered by the hands of restorers of St Petersburg.