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Added by Jopie, at 12 October 2016
Opening Hours
- Monday Closed
- Tuesday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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13 Reviews
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06 April 2018
In 1935, an exhibition called "The 15th anniversary of the formation of the Kazakh SSR" was organized by the Kazakh State Art Gallery (since 1935 - named after TG Shevchenko ). The gallery carried out work on the collection of works by Kazakh, Russian and foreign artists.
In 1970, the Museum of Folk Applied Art of Kazakhstan was organized, which collected, preserved, studied and promoted the products of Kazakh folk arts and crafts.
In 1976, the State Museum of Arts of the Kazakh SSR was established on the basis of the collections of the Kazakh State Art Gallery named after TG Shevchenko and the Museum of Applied Folk Art of Kazakhstan. Since the same year is located in a modern building (architect G. Novikov).
In 1982 the building of the museum was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments of the Kazakh SSR of republican significance and taken under state protection.
In 1984, the museum was named after the Kazakh artist, the founder of the Kazakh national school of painting Abilkhan (Abylkhana) Kasteev .response / report this review -
13 February 2018
Fantastic art museum. I really enjoyed both the Russian and Kazakh art.
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01 February 2018
A great museum to visit. There were many nice exhibitis, and the price is very affordable.
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27 December 2017
Some of the old women attendants don't like children in their gallery. This a shame as the Kasteev is trying to do some outreach work.
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10 November 2017
When we went there was an exhibition of dolls, various dolls from Russian and Kazakh stories. It was great, some really high quality work, especially on the clothes.
More generally, it's a good gallery with some interesting pictures, the Soviet paintings were interesting and there were paintings exhibiting different techniques local artists use.
To get there might be a problem, it can be tricky to find, not many taxi drivers know of the museum. But if you say "Satpaev street outside Raxat Palace hotel" it's Ok, the museum is a large yellow building opposite the hotel.response / report this review -
23 September 2017
Beautiful interior and pieces, cheap entrance
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28 August 2017
Cheap ticket prices. Audioguide in English didn't work as intended. Interesting exhibits, but the exhibits weren't particularly well organized.
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30 July 2017
Amazing experience. Must return againsoon!
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18 April 2017
Very nice drawings. As a photographer, I really did get inspired by these drawings. This museum is actually the only museum ill advice you the visit. All other museums i did not like (including state museum).
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16 March 2017
This is a tremendous museum. It describes Kazakhstan history and its artists
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06 February 2017
The museum is rather small, but considered big in the KZ scale. The exhibitions for the Soviet, Russian and Kazakh art and its evolution are one of the best, but the fact that I couldn't pay for the tickets by card is soooo 1990s. Even the gift shop across the hall offers to pay using a Visa, MasterCard etc. Removed one star for this only.
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06 January 2017
"Полифония барокко" was supposed to be a museum visit with a coffee break and a concert but turned out to be a boring and poorly organized event. Discussing the art is allowed only by whispering. At 6 oclock most halls closed, coffee was not coming yet (the workers were having tea with cookies and the visitors were trapped in a hall with chairs doing nothing and being bored. In 30 minutes everyone was invited to go to the table with cups and a few little plates with cookies. There were way too many people for the size of the table and it was a bit embarassing to try to get to the table. We value our time more than the workers of the museum value the time of the visitors, so we left instead of waiting for the concert for another 30 minutes. I would say it was money wasted. Whoever organizes such events in that museum needs to once see how such events go in the USA or somewhere in Europe to understand how sad this one looked in comparison or even without comparing to anything.
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19 October 2016
In all honesty a rather disappointing experience - the building itself is very uninspiring and seems like an office building more than an exhibition space. Some of the floors are creaky. The artworks had no proper lighting, or they did but the spotlights weren't turned on (due to the lack of visitors perhaps?). There were random furniture like sofas and drawers. Some of the contemporary art were poorly maintained - the prints had peeling edges.
Most importantly though - there wasn't a distinct curatorial thread, it seemed like they just had a lot of art lying around and decided to hang them all. There was some contextual information in english but really inadequate - I found it a huge pity as I really liked a couple of works and would have loved to know more about the artist, style, and history behind it.
Admission (to the permanent exhibitions) costs 500 tenge as of Oct 2016response / report this review
