Almaty Museum
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| Established | 2001 |
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| Location | Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Type | History museum |
The Almaty Museum is a history museum in Almaty, Kazakhstan, located in the former building of the Vernensky Children's Orphanage. It features exhibits on the history of the city.
Almaty Museum was opened in 2001.[1] As part of the Almaty Museum there is a dynastic royal burial complex "Boraldai Sak barrows", which preserved the cultural and natural landscape.[2]
In 2016, the museum moved into the complex of buildings of the former Vernensky orphanage.[3]
The museum exposition includes more than 40 thousand exhibits, divided into 11 eras: "The Ancient History of Almaty", "The Medieval History of Almaty", "At the Origin of Kazakh Statehood", "Ethnography of Zhetysu", "Vernensky Period of Almaty History", "Almaty in the 20th Century", "Development of Culture and Art", "History of Mountaineering", "Zheltoksan", "Almaty and the Leader of a Nation", "Model of Peace and Harmony".[4]
Since August 2017, the museum has taken part in the "Museum for Everyone" program. Special interactive tours have been created for wheelchair users and people with visual and hearing impairments.[5]
The museum is equipped with modern means of displaying exhibits, which allow showing projections of historical video materials and rare artifacts in the form of holograms.[4]