00:00In the heart of the Karakalpak desert, in northwestern Uzbekistan, far from the world's art capitals,
00:08stands a museum that changed the way we think about where culture can live.
00:17This is the Savitsky Museum, known to many at the Louvre in the desert.
00:22Inside, every wall tells a story.
00:31From the bold lines of Russian avant-garde painters to the silent fragments of ancient horizon.
00:38Here, forgotten art found its home.
00:42Our museum was founded in 1966 by the Russian artist Igor Vítalievich Savitsky.
00:49He first came to us in Karakalpakstan in the 1950s,
00:53in order of the famous Haryazam-Ska-Felgo-Ethnographic expedition,
00:57in the form of a permanent artist.
00:59Our museum takes the second place in the world in the collection of Russian avant-garde
01:04after the famous Russian Museum in Sankt Petersburg.
01:07The collection of our museum has more than 100 000 exponents
01:10and more than 80 000 of them will collect Igor Vítalievich Savitsky
01:15for his entire life that he lived here in Karakalpakstan.
01:19Savitsky, a Moscow artist turned collector, fell in love with this remote region.
01:26What began as a modest effort to preserve local crafts
01:30became one of the world's greatest collections of suppressed and forgotten art.
01:35Among the museum's treasures are sculptural works carved from wood and stone,
01:47traditional jewellery and handcrafted household items
01:51that revealed the artistry of everyday life in Karakalpakstan.
01:55Nearby vivid paintings capture local traditions and faces, scenes of people, nature and color that echo through time.
02:04Together, these collections form a living dialogue between heritage and creativity.
02:10Savitsky's vision built the bridge between the past and modern identity.
02:14Savitsky's vision khié
02:16Savitsky
02:26The Soviet Museum is more than a gallery, it's a story of defiance, passion and rediscovery,
02:52proof that even in the desert, art can bloom and endure.
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