The Academy of Sciences commented on the relocation of the Navoiy Literary Museum. It was noted that the museum's collections are being temporarily moved to storage facilities to ensure the integrity and safety of the rare sources and to conduct an inventory check of them.
Artist Joe Namy presented the multichannel sound installation Cosmic Breath at the Musalla space of the Ibraaz project near Oxford Street — a collection of historical and contemporary recordings of the adhan from Mecca, Jerusalem, Singapore, Khartoum and other places. The work, first shown at the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah in 2023, sounds different in London, according to the author, against the backdrop of rising Islamophobia.
Nazi Aripdjanova, Communications Director at Coca-Cola in Uzbekistan, shared with Spot.uz six books that influenced her professional development: from Marquez and Orwell to the biography of Steve Jobs and a book by the founder of Starbucks.
The building of the State Museum of Literature named after Alisher Navoi in Tashkent has been transferred free of charge to the Uzbek State Youth Theatre under operational management by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution dated 29 September 2026. Construction of a new building for the museum is planned in Yangi Tashkent, but it is not yet ready. Museum staff are concerned about the fate of manuscripts, wall artworks and research activities; part of the collections has already been transferred to the Center of Islamic Civilization, and the rest is planned to be relocated.
