Kasteev Home Museum
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Дом музей Кастеева | |
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| Established | 2014 |
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| Location | Almaty |
| Coordinates | 43°14′36″N 76°56′56″E / 43.24333°N 76.94889°E |
Home Museum of Abylkhan Kasteev (Kazakh: Әбілхан Қастеев мұражай-үйі, romanized: Äbılhan Qasteev mūrajai-üiı, Russian: Дом музей Кастеева, tr. dom muzei kasteeva) is a memorial museum of the painter Abilkhan Kasteev in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The museum is located in the house where he lived from 1958 to 1973.
The house is located on Bekhozhina Street in the east part of Almaty, behind the Malaya Almatinka river. It was built in 1955 for the artist's family. In 1966 the house was completely demolished and then rebuilt. Abilkhan Kasteev lived and worked in the house from 1958 to 1973.[1]
In 2004, Kasteev's family transferred the house to the state to create a memorial museum.[2]
In 2014, the 110th anniversary of the artist's birth, the memorial home-museum was opened. The opening ceremony of the museum was attended by the artist's family, friends, employees of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts and the akim (mayor) of Medeu District, Sultanbek Makezhanov.[3]
