​Ethnographic Exhibition Hall

​     ​The Ethnographic Hall is designed to visually showcase the everyday life of the Kazakh people in both their nomadic and sedentary cultures through material exhibits. The main text of the hall was first compiled in 1982, at which time a thematic exhibition plan was also developed. The plan was created by scholars such as the statesman and public figure Özbekäli Jänibekov, academic and literary scholar Rakhmankul Berdibayuly, Doctor of Historical Sciences and ethnographer Khalel Arginbaiuly, pharmacologist Ağzhan Mashanov, and other specialists. The exhibition broadly presents aspects of the people’s life characteristic of the 18th–20th centuries: daily life, economic activities, crafts and culture, education, hunting and falconry, as well as other elements of traditional Kazakh culture.

​Animal husbandry

​     One of the oldest human occupations is animal husbandry. This craft played an important role in the daily life of nomadic peoples. Therefore, the exhibition begins with a display of livestock farming among the Kazakhs who inhabited the middle reaches of the Syr Darya River. The exhibition features tools necessary for keeping and managing livestock — horse harnesses, a baby carrier (bota kebezhe), woven enclosures (örme shiderler), feeding troughs (kögen), and shackles (kisen), as well as methods for processing wool for household use: felt making, rope twisting, and the art of weaving carpets and alasha.