Auezov Home Museum
The M.O. Auezov Literary and Memorial House Museum (Russian: Дом-музей Ауэзова, tr. dom muzei auezova) is a museum founded in 1963 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the house where Mukhtar Auezov lived the last 10 years of his life (1951-1961). History The Mukhtar Auezov House Museum was opened in 1963. The first director of the museum was Auezov's daughter, L. M. Auezova. Here the epic novel was completed, work on a new novel about modernity began, a number of works of fiction (plays, essays) and research papers were created. Museum exhibition The museum building includes the workroom where Mukhtar Auezov spent time working on his creations. Along with Auezov's personal archive and library in the collections of the museum there are more than 150 thousand exhibits in the form of memorial items, works of art, photographs and others. Along with cultural and educational work the museum conducts research works on collecting, studying and promotion of Auezov's creations. Museum building Mukhtar Auezov received the Stalin Prize for his epic The Path of Abay in 1949, with the help of which he bought a plot of land from two teachers. Construction began in 1949 and was completed in 1951. The architect of the