Almaty Museum of Art This is the best art collection in the country, with Kazakh, Russian and some Western European art and a room of top-class modern Kazakh handicrafts, with much explanatory material in English. Particularly interesting is the room on Russia's Mir Iskusstva movement, and also the large collection of paintings by Kazakh Abylkhan Kasteev (1904–73). Kasteevs clear portraits, landscapes and scenes of Soviet progress (railways, collective farming) obviously toed the party line but his technique is fabulous. There's an engaging collection of abstract sculpture in the museum grounds.

National museums of Kazakstan

Great artist He was born in the village of Chizhin near Jarkent (now Almaty oblast). From 1929 to 1931 Kasteev studied at the art studio of Nikolai Gavrilovich Khludov (who then lived in Kazakhstan). Then, from 1934 to 1937, he continued his studies in Moscow, in the Art Studio. Krupskaya. Chairman of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan ( ). He was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Kazakh SSR 4-6-th convocation. He died on November 2, 1973, was buried in Alma-Ata.

Peaceful warrior Karipbek Kuyukov's paintings are exhibited in private and public collections in America, Japan, Germany. Exhibited in Japan, USA, Germany, Turkey, China and Kazakhstan. The subject of Kuyukov's paintings is connected with the nuclear threat to mankind.

A rich, diverse, invaluable collection gives a vivid idea of the artistic culture of Kazakhstan, Europe and Asia, masters of past eras and the present. The number of exhibits of the museum's main fund is more than 23,000 units. halls The museum has several scientific centers: the fine arts of Kazakhstan, the decorative and applied art of Kazakhstan, classical foreign art, foreign art of modern times, funds, restoration, exhibitions and exposition, management and external relations, scientific expertise, excursion services, information and publishing.