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This State museum of history was opened in Tashkent on the 18th of October, 1996 in commemoration of 660th anniversary of Amir Timur, the great state governor and commander. The museum was founded by the initiative and under the supervision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Islam Abduganievich Karimov.
Zangi-ata complex is situated in Zangi-ata settlement near Tashkent in southwestern direction. Architectural monuments which had been constructed at the site of sheikh Ay-Hodja burial, nicknamed Zangi-ata, represent great historical and artistic value.
The history of the square in the center of Tashkent named after Amir Timur, the commander and founder of a huge medieval empire, began as early as in the XIX century, when Tashkent was the center of the Turkestan Military Command, composing the Russian Empire. It was established by order of general M. Chernyaev in 1882.
