5th  day of our practice 🗒📌📝

Today is the fifth  day of our practice and we visited the  blacksmiths'  workshop and museum  in Bukhara.

Our  coursemate  Marjona gave  important  information  about  this  workshop and museum😁📝😍

	BLACKSMITHS' MUSEUM-WORKSHOP, THE KULYUTA KARAVANSARAY (16th c.)

~ One of the main activities of the Bukhara museum-preserve is to revive and support traditional Bukharan handicraft. In 1992, the blacksmiths' museum-workshop, the only one of its type in Uzbekistan, was set up in the 16th - century Kulyuta karavansarai. The museum-workshop is a living museum. Not only could one learn there the history of the ancient blacksmith's craft, but also participate in making blacksmith products. Usto Shokir Kamolov, who comes of a family of blacksmiths, is the senior researcher of the museum. The museum-workshop has swords, knives, arrow-heads, and craftsmen's instruments. The exhibits of major interest are "Risola," blacksmiths' rules (19th c.), chain- mail (17th c.), a warrior's outfit (17th c.), and bellows (17th c.).