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{{Expand Russian|Государственный музей искусств Казахстана имени А. Кастеева|date=July 2015}}
The '''A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts''' is the largest [[art museum]] in [[Kazakhstan]], located in [[Almaty]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/istituzione/103/A.-Kasteyev-State-Museum-of-Arts-of-the-Republic-Kazakhstan | title=A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts of the Republic Kazakhstan | publisher=[http://www.lifebeyondtourism.org/ Life Beyond Tourism] | accessdate=7 August 2014 }}</ref>

The museum opened on 16 September 1976, based on the collections of the Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery (established in 1935) and the Republic Museum of Decorative and Applied Art (established in 1970).<ref name="codart">{{cite web| url=http://www.codart.com/291/institutions/details/?institution_id=1894 | title=Kasteev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazkhstan | publisher=[http://www.codart.com/ Codart] | accessdate=7 August 2014 }}</ref> In 1984, the museum was renamed to honour the Kazakh artist [[Abilkhan Kasteev]] (1904–1973).

The museum has a collection of over 23,000 works, including historic and contemporary Kazakhstan art, works from the [[Soviet]] era (1920s–1990s), [[Russia]]n artworks (17th to early 20th century), [[Western Europe]]an art (16th–20th centuries), and art from [[East Asia]] ([[China]], [[India]], [[Japan]], and [[Korea]]).<ref name="codart" />

==See also==
* [[List of museums in Kazakhstan]]
* [[The national museum of the republic of kazakhstan]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.gmirk.kz/ Museum website]

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[[Category:1976 establishments in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic]]
[[Category:Museums established in 1976]]
[[Category:Art museums and galleries in Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Biographical museums]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Almaty]]

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