The Tashkent Modernism app brings together 21 sites of Tashkent’s modernist architecture into a single online route.

The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan (formerly the Lenin Museum) was built in 1970. The building was designed by Yevgeny Rozanov and Vsevolod Shestopalov. Most modernist Lenin museums in the USSR were designed as elevated “temples,” with the main “sanctuary” being the hall featuring a sculpture of Lenin. In Tashkent, however, the museum’s architecture itself became the main exhibit. The imposing marble parallelepiped seemed to “hover in the air,” while the instantly recognisable sun-shading lattice panels, or panjara, added a touch of national character.

After the collapse of the USSR, the museum’s exhibits were completely updated. The building has preserved its original features and remains one of the most significant monuments of Tashkent’s 1960s–1980s architecture. Although the museum is currently closed for restoration, its striking architecture can still be admired from the outside.

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