Nazarbayev Center

The Nazarbayev exposition has four parts:

• "President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is a founder of the state"
• "President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and people"
• "President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is a reformer"
• "President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev is a world-scale leader"

The main laws of Kazakhstan are presented in the show-windows around the hall.

• The left hand-side of the hall displays the Kazahk flag, national anthem and national emblem..
• The right hand-side of the hall displays a model of the Ak Orda Presidential Palace and the Baiterek Monument.

The hall also displays official gifts to Nazarbayev by the heads of states and delegations from different countries.

The Hall of Ethnography contain items produced by skilled craftsmen. The collection includes:

• applied art
• domestic utensils made of wood, metal, leather, wool
• clothes, including variety of items depicting national life.
• women's silver adornments, including rings, bracelets, breast and hair adornments and other jewelry
• A snow-white yurt

One of the unique exhibits of the hall is "Saukele", a wedding headdress of a bride (Mangystau region, West Kazakhstan, the first half of the 19th century).

Kasiet Hall contains:

• Items of clothing that belong to famous Kazahks.
• musical instruments from the collection of Sarybayev,
• traditional Kazakh armor
• jewelry

The clothing collection includes

• A camisole that belonged to Kara Fatima Khanum (reconstruction by A.Abdubaitova)
• Traditional bridal clothing (reconstruction by Zhailaubaeva),
• A shapan (long robe) that belonged to the diplomat Kazybek bi
• A shapan that belonged to Abylai Khan
• a kise (belt) that belonged to Baluan Sholak

The Archeological Gallery displays Kazakh artifacts from the Stone Age to the late Middle Ages.

• Depictions of the Andronov people are based on paleoanthropological research. The gallery displays an "Andronov woman" (8th to 9th centuries BCE) in her reconstructed clothes with ornaments. This project was created by the archeologist Kimal Akishev.
• The gallery has a large collection of items from the Turkic Kaganate. It also has a large collection of dirhems (coins) from the Karakhanid dynasty and the city of Taraz.

The Ancient World Hall presents several exhibits

• Treasures and artifacts from the Issyk Kurgan (burial mound_ (5th century BCE), considered the largest archeological monuments of the Saka period. The Saka warrior (4th to 3rd centuries BCE) was buried in this kurgan in ceremonial clothes . The quality of the processing of his gold things testifies that the Saka were skilled sculptural casting, high-relief and base-relief stamping, embossing and engraving.
• Items from the Boralday burial ground (4th to 3rd centuries BCE). A Saka chieftain was buried along with 13 mummified horses decorated with leather masks, wooden horns of mountain goats, and covered with leather and gold.
• Reconstruction of the Sarmatian chieftain (3rd to 2nd centuries BCE) (Altynbekov's reconstruction). The clothes are richly inlaid with gold metal plates and plates of various configuration.

The world of Kazakhs Hall presents the private collection of Imangali Tasmagambetov. It contains graphic and craft art of Kazakhstan. The majority of the artworks date from the 18th century to the 20th century, but also contains items from earlier eras.

The collection includes jewelry and adornments, belts for men and women, military equipment and armor, woman's headdresses and musical instruments.

The Historical Gallery covers the period from the Middle Ages to 1986. The exposition space is divided into following stages:

• The Kazakh Khanate from the 15th to the 17th centuries
• The History and culture of Kazakhstan from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.
• The political position of the Kazakh society at the beginning the 20th century.
• The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic period

The Independent Kazakhstan Gallery is devoted to Islam and Orthodox Christianity. \

The exhibition consist of 100 exhibits from the funds of the Museum. It includes unique books in Arabic, the Koran, rare Orthodox icons and originals of icons with foldable side flaps, a censer and candlesticks..

The Astana: the Past and the Present gallery is about the history and culture of Astana.

The gallery includes artifacts from the ancient settlement of Bozok, historical documents, photos, life subjects, utensils, clothes and other exhibits.

Three funds included in the service have an important significance, "Independent Kazakhstan and its founder President Nursultan Nazarbayev" fund, archeology fund, fund of written sources and material culture.

Funds have the following directions, which are provision of strict state accounting of the museum funds of The Nazarbayev Center, ensuring its legal protection and creating conditions for studying and rational use of museum values. The organization of the secondary state account and ensuring safety of museum values, identification of the museum subjects and the museum collections, directed on systematic replenishment (acquisition) of funds by profile. Studying and preservation of historical and cultural monuments, promotion and dissemination of knowledge about them.

The Service operates three sectors,

• restoration of metal, wood, leather and bone goods. It restores leather, bone, and metal. During the restoration also carried out technical work: welding, turning, casting, molding, sanding, as well as work with chemicals.
• restoration of paintings, drawings and ceramics. It carries out restoration of oil painting, mixed painting techniques, graphics, porcelain and earthenware, ceramics (archaeological items and household items), paper (restoration of written sources and photos, mat making, restoration of books).
• restoration of materials and carpet-felt products - hands and machine restoration, computer embroidery, restoration of rarities, production of souvenirs, sewing slipcovers, sewing different products.