17.04.2024 The exhibition “Great Names of the Great Steppe”
The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan will hold the traditional event “NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM - 2024” on the theme “Museums for Education and Research”, dedicated to the International Day of Museums, on May 17, 2024 from 6.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.
As part of the event, the exhibition “Great Names of the Great Steppe” will be presented, which will demonstrate the scientific works and achievements of scientists who have made a significant contribution to the development of Kazakhstani science. Kazakh science has made a huge contribution to the world’s scientific treasury, created not just schools, but also entire promising areas of science that have formed into independent large institutes, educated and revealed to the world a whole galaxy of Kazakh scientists.
The purpose of the exhibition: to show the contribution of scientists in the formation and development of Kazakhstani science.
The exhibition will feature memorial complexes of outstanding scientists from the funds of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Chokan Valikhanov - the great Kazakh scientist orientalist, historian, ethnographer, geographer, folklorist, translator, journalist, traveler; Ybyray Altynsarin – educator, folklorist, public figure, ethnographer and writer; Abay Kunanbayev - Kazakh poet, philosopher, musician, public educator, public figure; Akhmet Baitursynov - Kazakh educator, teacher, publicist, translator, Turkic scholar, linguist and politician; Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpayev - the first Kazakh railway engineer, builder of Turksib, author of a number of historical works; Satpayev K.I. - founder of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR; Margulan A.Kh. – archaeologist-historian, art historian and folklorist;
Argynbayeva Kh.A. - ethnographer, archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor; Akishev K. – Soviet and Kazakh archaeologist, one of the founders of the national school, who made the discovery of the “Golden Man”; Zhanibekov U.D. – statesman, ethnographer; Kozhamkulova B.S. – the first female paleontologist in Kazakhstan.
Of particular interest in the exhibition will be personal items from the memorial complexes of Chokan Valikhanov - a borik, a gun butt, a lantern, a silver spoon and fork, a tumarsha (amulet), expedition materials, sketches; personal belongings of K.I. Satpayev – photographic documents, books, awards, souvenirs; Uzbekali Zhanibekov - photographic documents, personal documents, books, from personal belongings: a knob for a cane in the form of a fish head with a beard with an open mouth and scales on the back, a table clock, a two-string dombra, etc. Manuscripts of Abay Kunanbayev and Ybyray Altynsarin will also be presented, archival materials of A. Baitursynov and Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpayev identified from the funds of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The event will be complemented by intellectual games, quizzes, etc.
