Getting there
Al-Farabi Avenue.
Limestone, aluminium and more than seven hundred works that the city received as a gift.
The museum opened on 12 September 2025 and became the largest private museum of modern and contemporary art in Central Asia. Its founder, the entrepreneur Nurlan Smagulov, gave it a collection of more than 700 works.
The design is by the British firm Chapman Taylor: two L-shaped volumes, one in limestone, the other in aluminium, like the mountains and the city. The first exhibition was a retrospective of Almagul Menlibayeva.
Another address worth remembering opened the same month: the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, a 1964 cinema rebuilt by Asif Khan's studio.
- Opened
- 12 September 2025
- Architect
- Chapman Taylor
- Collection
- more than 700 works
