Kazakhstan Museum of Arts

The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty. Founded in 1976, it combines the collections of the former Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery (1935) and the Republic Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts. Named after Abilkhan Kasteyev (1904–1973), the first National Artist of Kazakhstan, the museum holds over 23,000 works spanning Kazakh, Central Asian, Russian, Western European, and East Asian art from the 16th century to the present.