A surprisingly good fine arts museum, founded in 1918 around art confiscated from the palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Konstantinovich Romanov, the eccentric royal exiled to Tashkent. The European collection — sixteenth- through nineteenth-century work, including some Italian and Flemish pieces — is unexpected here, several thousand kilometres from any obvious source.
The Russian and Uzbek galleries are equally worth a look. Pavel Benkov's portraits of Bukhara women in the 1920s are among the highlights, as are the avant-garde works from the Soviet 1920s and 30s. Closed Mondays.