Australians top the list among visitors to Uzbekistan’s State Museum of History 

The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan was visited most by Australian tourists in 2018, Kun.uz correspondent reports citing a source from the museum. 
 
An interesting fact – according to the statistics of the State Committee on Tourism, in terms of the number of travelers who came to our country from non-CIS countries last year, Australians are far from taking the lead. To be more precise, they occupy the 21st place only. 
  
It turns out that most of the representatives of the green continent choose the capital museum as one of their main goals while visiting Uzbekistan. 
 
It should be noted that Australia is closely followed by Japan and South Korea. But here it is becoming more logical, since the tourist flow from these countries is quite high. 
 
The State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan is one of the oldest museums in Central Asia. It was founded 136 years ago. The museum’s exposition includes about 250,000 exhibits, including 60,000 archaeological, over 80,000 numismatic and 16,000 ethnographic objects reflecting the Uzbek history from primitive time to the present day. 
 
Unique exhibits of the museum are the remains of primitive people from the grotto Selungur (1,5 million years BC), a stone statue depicting two snakes found in Fergana Valley (II millennium BC), décor from the Palace of Bukhara rulers in the 6th - 8th centuries and fragments of wall paintings of the 7th - 8th centuries found on the site of Afrasiab, as well as a carved wooden column of the 10th century from the village Oburdon.