Yesterday we had just enough time to get a first glance at the modern architecture of Nur-Sultan. Today we will learn more about the country’s history in three museums – all very different from one another.
We start in the morning with the Memorial Museum Alzhir, located 40km outside of the city, to learn more about the dark history of Kazakhstan. Alzhir was the biggest concentration camp in USSR for wives of “betrayers of the homeland”. There you will get an understanding of how people lived, worked and survived in Soviet concentration camps, the infamous “Gulags”.
Back in Nur – Sultan we will have lunch and then head to the new and impressive National Museum. The museum is huge and we will visit the most interesting rooms, including the ones with famous Scythian gold artifacts, most importantly the “Golden Man”.
The third museum we will visit is located in the part of the city that was constructed specially for the World EXPO 2017 with the topic “Future Energy”. The centerpiece of the Expo area is the building “Nur Alem”, which is the world’s largest spherical building with a diameter of 80 meters and a height of 100 meters. The buildings served as the Kazakh Pavilion during the EXPO and starting from 2018 it will work as a “Museum of Future”.
After visits to these three very interesting museums we will have farewell dinner in a nice restaurant.
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