Museum sights in Bishkek
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State Historical Museum
Sure, there are yurts, a mummy, carpets, embroidery and even open-air balbals (Turkic totemlike gravestones) in the State Historical Museum, but the highlight is the mural-cum-shrine to Lenin and the Revolution upstairs. Former US president Ronald Reagan is immortalised wearing a skull, astride a missile and grinning wildly. Nazi Germany is depicted as a rampaging bear while (surprise, surprise) Mother Russia as a beautiful woman clutching a white dove. English and lighting is minimal.
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Frunzwe House-Museum
Is this thatched cottage really where the little Frunze played with his toy soldiers, or just the Soviet way with history? In any case the meticulous two-storey Frunzwe House-Museum engulfing it - showcasing Frunze as a military and family man, plus the requisite posters, weapons, flags and statues - has itself become a piece of history.
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Dom Druzhby
The conspicuously older structure northeast of Ala-Too Sq at Pushkin 68 was the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Kyrgyz ASSR, declared in 1926. It's now home to the Dom Druzhby community centre for advocacy and self-help groups, as well as a drab zoology museum.
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State Museum of Fine Arts
The decaying State Museum of Fine Arts, also called the Gapar Aitiev Museum of Applied Art, features Kyrgyz embroidery, jewellery, utensils, eye- popping felt rugs, works by local artists, and a startling collection of reproduction Egyptian and classical statues.
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