At the International Scientific Congress in Tashkent, the first five album-books from the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections Project series were presented.
The International Scientific Congress “The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan: the way to the dialogue between peoples and countries” began work in the capital on May 15. The second day of the Scientific Forum will be held in Samarkand.
At the event, reports on the unique objects of material and artistic culture made in the territory of Uzbekistan and kept in museums around the world took place.
The central event of the Congress was the presentation of the media project “The Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections”. Its author and leader is the Chairman of the Board of the National Association of the Electronic Media of the Firdavs Abdukhalikov and the scientific supervisor is Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan Edvard Rveladze.
The event presents the first five volumes of album books from the Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan series published in Uzbek, English and Russian. They are dedicated to the Uzbek collections at the State Museum of Oriental Art (Moscow), the Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Carpets and Embroidery of Uzbekistan in the World Collections (Australia, Canada, the USA and others) and the Works by Alisher Navoi in the Collection of the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg).
In addition, five pilot albums are presented about the collections of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg), the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg), the State Historical Museum (Moscow), the musical heritage of Uzbekistan in the collections of the world and the carpet-making of Uzbekistan.
Edvard Rveladze noted the importance of the Congress not only for Uzbekistan, but also the entire scientific community of the world.
“This Congress has scientific and educational significance. For several years, scholars of Uzbekistan together with scholars, first of all, from Russia worked on the publication of five volumes ... This is an innovative project, it has no analogues around the world. I think that other countries can follow our example,” said the Academician.
According to him, other countries, where part of the material and spiritual culture of Uzbekistan is kept, will gradually be covered. “Our scholars and emissaries found out that the cultural legacy of Uzbekistan, which for various reasons turned out to be outside our homeland, is stored even in the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, Canada, and Argentina. Gradually, we will cover these countries and regions,” Edvard Rtveladze emphasized.
The participants of the event watched trailers of documentaries about the collections of Uzbekistan in the collections of museums, scientific institutes and libraries of the world. The creative group of the project participated by Firdavs Abdukhalikov and journalist Shahnoza Ganiev conducted shooting in 15 museums in the world and recorded interviews with scholars, - inform Gazeta.uz.
The Congress gathered over 140 scholars, experts, diplomats, and representatives of international organizations from more than 40 countries, as well as more than 50 representatives of Russian science.
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