Lebap Regional Museum

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Turkmenabat's ridiculously ornate museum could double as Liberace's house (check out those chandeliers!), but it also houses a solid collection of archeological findings from the Lebap region and a good ethnographic display including a full reconstruction of a Silk Road market. Upstairs there's also a collection of geological findings, including mouldings of the dinosaur footprints from the Kugitang Nature Reserve and a stuffed zemzen, a large, fierce and very rarely seen desert lizard.


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