page_title: Ulugh Beg Observatory
section_title: Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Ulugh Beg Observatory / Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: Observatie Ulugbek Museum - Обсерватория Улугбека музей
context_page_description: The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg, it is considered by scholars to have been one of the finest observatories in the Islamic world. Islamic astronomers who worked at the observatory include Al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory was destroyed in 1449 and rediscovered in 1908.
context_section_description: The Ulug Beg Observatory Museum was built in 1970 to commemorate Ulugh Beg. The museum contains reproductions of the Arabic manuscripts Ulug Beg's star charts, the Zij-i Sultani, and of important European printed editions of Ulugh Beg's work. It also contains astrolabes and other instruments as well as a miniature reconstruction of the observatory itself.
caption: Ulug Beg Observatory Museum in 2012
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