The National Wheat Museum in Turkmenistan celebrated its 20th anniversary
20 years ago, a unique museum in Turkmenistan, the White Wheat Museum, opened its doors.
The Ak Bugday National Museum is located in the city of Anau and is the only museum in the world whose exhibits are related to the history of the emergence of white wheat in human life and today's technologies for its cultivation.
The museum was opened on July 15, 2005. Its building, with an area of 3,690 m2, is a 21-meter-high structure topped with a "crown" of wheat ears.
The museum has several exhibition departments. The museum's collection consists of more than 3,000 historical exhibits.
During archaeological excavations on the territory of ancient Anau, the American scientist Raphael Pampelly discovered the remains of white wheat grains in 1903-1904, the age of which was determined to be 5 thousand years.
Ancient grains, as well as stone grain grinders (2nd millennium BC), hand millstones (3rd - 2nd millennium BC), an oil churn for squeezing oil from sesame seeds and many other household items of the first farmers are the pride of the exposition of the Ak Bugday National Museum.
During its existence, the museum has become a symbol of the commitment of the Turkmen people to the spiritual traditions of their ancestors. Many guests of Turkmenistan strive to visit it to see with their own eyes the unique exhibits that tell how agriculture originated and developed in the foothills of the Kopetdag.
