The best museums Bukhara Area

This small museum is erected in the heart of the village of Afshana where Ibn Sina, better known as Avicenna, was born in 980, one of the greatest scholars of the Muslim world and still considered the father of modern medicine with his famous Canon of Medicine. Since 1980, and the celebration of the millennium of Avicenna's birth, nothing had changed in this small museum. It has now been renovated, integrated into a medical college, and equipped with an exhibition enriched with many works that make it more attractive. The vast entrance hall displays a magnificent bust of Avicenna sculpted by Klinski. In the centre of the exhibition hall was built a room centred on a cenotaph containing some of the earth of Hamadan, where Ibn Sina died in 1037. The various niches in the room evoke the illustrious men who inspired Avicenna's work: Galen, Hippocrates, Aristotle... Tools and instruments from the laboratory and pharmacy of the period are on display, including a small ceramic jar with a female nipple-shaped spout, touching the ancestor of the bottle dating from the 9th century. We also discover three facsimiles of the Canon of Medicine, a masterpiece of Avicenna's medical work, translated into Latin in the 12th century by Gérard de Crémone (a gift from the Avicenna-France association). The second part of the exhibition illustrates the various medical techniques of the time and an interesting explanation of the techniques used by Soviet scholars to reconstruct Avicenna's face.