Museum of Kazakh Musical Instruments

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  • Address
    Zenkov 24, city centre
  • Phone
    261 63 16

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Lonely Planet review

In a striking 1908 wooden building (also the work of cathedral architect Zenkov) at the east end of Panfilov Park is the Museum of Kazakh Musical Instruments, the city's most original museum. It has a fine collection of traditional Kazakh instruments - wooden harps and horns, bagpipes, the lutelike two-stringed dombra and the violalike qobyz . If you're there at the same time as a tour group you'll hear tapes of the instruments and see the attendant strum the dombra .