As we stare at our last few months, we realized there are many things in Astana we'd been holding off on checking out. But now there's no reason to keep waiting. A few weeks ago we had some days off and decided to spend some time at the "new" museum - it opened just before we arrived in 2014.
We were quite happily surprised, as we'd been warned that it wasn't much. We spent the extra 1000 tenge for a visit to the gold rooms, and spent the bulk of our time there. The rooms have a number of artifacts including a reproduction of the "Golden Man" (photo of something similar, if not actually him, to the left). They provide headphones that play in English, Russian and Kazakh. The kids loved the interactive screens that gave more detailed information about various items that were in the rooms, for example Zoltan spent time flicking between screens of various weaponry and then we'd walk around and find some of the examples.
We made sure to get to the main entrance in time to watch the golden eagle soar to the sounds of ... well I'm not sure what the music was, but it sounded majestic and Kazkh and suited the mood. I'll be honest, it wasn't as impressive as the golden peacock at the Hermitage, but it was worth seeing.
It didn't take too long for the kids to be just done, and it was lunch time anyway. We probably didn't even see half the halls in the museum, but will definitely make a return trip later when the weather is better (it is a bit too far to ask the kids to walk all bundled in snow gear, but would be a perfect distance when we pull out bikes or scooters).
We were quite happily surprised, as we'd been warned that it wasn't much. We spent the extra 1000 tenge for a visit to the gold rooms, and spent the bulk of our time there. The rooms have a number of artifacts including a reproduction of the "Golden Man" (photo of something similar, if not actually him, to the left). They provide headphones that play in English, Russian and Kazakh. The kids loved the interactive screens that gave more detailed information about various items that were in the rooms, for example Zoltan spent time flicking between screens of various weaponry and then we'd walk around and find some of the examples.We made sure to get to the main entrance in time to watch the golden eagle soar to the sounds of ... well I'm not sure what the music was, but it sounded majestic and Kazkh and suited the mood. I'll be honest, it wasn't as impressive as the golden peacock at the Hermitage, but it was worth seeing.
It didn't take too long for the kids to be just done, and it was lunch time anyway. We probably didn't even see half the halls in the museum, but will definitely make a return trip later when the weather is better (it is a bit too far to ask the kids to walk all bundled in snow gear, but would be a perfect distance when we pull out bikes or scooters).
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