Savitsky Museum
The legendary Savitsky Museum holds thousands of banned Soviet avant-garde paintings — an art treasure hidden in the desert.
Off the Beaten Path
Nukus
Remote and intriguing, Nukus is the capital of Karakalpakstan and the surprising home of one of the world’s great avant-garde art collections.
Savitsky Museum
Aral Sea & Moynaq
Desert Fortresses
Karakalpak Culture
The Aral Sea
Journey to the haunting former seabed and the ship graveyard of Moynaq, one of the most powerful landscapes in Central Asia.
Ancient Fortresses
The desert around Nukus is dotted with the ruins of Khorezm’s mud-brick desert fortresses, some over 2,000 years old.