Yunus Radzhabi Historic House Museum — Attraction in Tashkent

The most special place we visited in Tashkent. At the beginning we thought it was closed however if you ring the bell, a smiling old lady welcomes you at the door. Bare in mind that if we do not have someone in the group who can speak russian the experience will be totally different and you'll need to learn about the extraordinary story of Yunus Radzhabi on your own. However, if you do have a russian speaker, his son in person walks you through a history of the family of this extraordinary musician and intellectual. He preserved Uzbek traditional music by putting in contemporary music writing songs that for decades were transmitted from teaching to scholars mostly via hearing and imitation, and just in rare cases in an ancient form of writing. The son needed to fight for 17th years to open this museum and it is definitely worth it. This type of music would need to be declared a universal heritage, and if one day it will, we owe it all to this man and his family. Besides raising a family of 16 children (to whom he managed to leave a house each) together with the extraordinary his wife (that is also celebrated in the museum), he wrote 12 books of music, he translated into music the poems of the famous Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi. A life dedicated to music and in general to the Uzbek culture. A man who managed to fascinate Dmitri Shostakovich with the Uzbek traditional music. Totally worth going there, but yes without a russian speaker unfortunately I'd miss all...

Wonderful host , we arrived on Sunday when the place was actually closed but when I saw someone entertaining the house I just knocked . There were 5 of us and when the host saw us they welcomed us with a smile . This is the house where Yunus Rajabiy has lived and created music called Uzbek maqom which is a folklore music of Uzbek people that has passed from generation to generation. Yunus Rajabiy was the first person to write musical notes to each of them to preserve the history and music of Uzbek culture . In the house you can see many photos taken hundred years ago on the streets of Tashkent to come up close to the history of the city and life of...

A must visit! I had the pleasure of hearing Hasan Rajabiy live and was recommended visiting the house by him. I was welcomed by family members in the house. Although the language barrier was there (I don’t speak Russian or Uzbek) they were só welcome and willing to show me everything. I had the feeling I stepped in a little piece of history and it was impressive. They sell CD’s too, though I was looking for LP’s and I’ll try my luck on the markets. Thank you sweet people! It is great that you are preserving this important...