The Tajikistan National Museum is a museum in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan. The museum opened in 2001 is a departmental museum, but at the same time has a national status, which was the recognition of the value and importance of its collections at the state level. The museum’s collections amounted to archaeological materials collected by the researchers and their Tajik colleagues from the scientific and museum center in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, as well as foreign scientists for nearly a century of archaeological research in Tajikistan. The most popular and valuable museum exhibit of Tajikistan, commonly referred to as exposed in the museum statue of Buddha in Nirvana. Its length is 12.85 meters, and weighs 5.5 tons statue was discovered during archaeological investigations Buddhist monastery in the early Middle Ages Ajina Teppe and today is one of the largest and oldest Buddhist monument in the world. The museum also presents unique monuments of material and spiritual culture, found during excavations in Khujand, Panjakent Istaravshan, Kulyab Hulbuk.
