Familiarization of 1st year students of the Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics with the Museum of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

      As part of the indicative week of the 2024-2025 academic year, on August 29, students of the 1st year of the educational programs "Cartography and Geodesy", "Geoinformatics", "Natural and Technogenic Risks" got acquainted with the Kazakh National University Museum. During the tour, students got access to information about the history of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and the trends of the university's development in domestic science and education.  

     The Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Museum is a scientific and information division of the university, the purpose of which is to preserve, enhance and promote the cultural and historical values of the university to ensure effective scientific and educational training, moral and patriotic education of graduates who are competitive in Kazakhstan and at the global level.

     The museum at the university has existed since 1989, and its large-scale reconstruction was carried out 20 years later. The opening of the new museum took place on October 13, 2009.

     The history of university creation, rich in traditions, is worthily represented in more than 5 thousand historical valuable documents and rare museum exhibits, which are skillfully and expressively collected in 120 showcases. The area of the museum complex is 1000 sq. m. meters. It unites: the Gallery of History, the Hall of Fame, the Hall of Sustainable Development of the University.

     As a result of the tour, thanks to the museum staff, the students got acquainted with the history of the university and showed interest.