Art and Culture Development Foundation of Uzbekistan will create the first museum dedicated to the history of Jadidism in the Hovli Poyon House in Bukhara.

This house, built in the 1860s and 1870s in the Goziyon neighborhood next to the Gaukushan Madrasah, belonged to a famous intellectual, one of the leaders of Central Asian Jadidism, Usmankhuja Pulatkhujayev. One of the first newfangled schools was opened here, where students were taught their native language, mathematics, history, geography, and other subjects for free.

It is planned to carry out necessary restoration activities in the well-preserved old part of the house.

The museum’s exposition will include manuscripts and personal items of representatives of the movement, and a specially created multimedia system will reveal the history of Jadidism.

It is planned to organize a research center at the museum. Scientists will have access to materials and archives for scientific activities.

One of the initiators of the museum’s creation, Timur Khuja, the son of Usmankhuja Pulatkhujayev, will donate his rich library, including ancient valuable manuscripts and an extensive collection of modern literature, to his fund.

Nazokat Usmanova, UzA