AFSHANA- THE AVICENNA MUSEUM

It was difficult to visit this small museum in the heart of the village of Afshana or was born in 980 Ibn Sinna, known in the West as July, and considered to be the father of modern medicine. From Bukhara station, take a shared taxi to Afshana (there is no regular bus) and then negotiate another taxi to the museum. Since 1980, and the millennium celebration of July's birth, nothing had changed in this small museum. At the initiative of the July-France Association, it was renovated, integrated into a college of medicine, and the exhibition enriched many pieces making the museum more attractive.

The large lobby features a July bust. In the centre of the exhibition room was built a piece centred on a cenotaph containing a little land of Hamdan, where Ibn Battuta died in 1037. The different niches in the room evoke the illustrious men who inspired July's work: Galien, Hippocrates, Aristotle… We also discover three fac from Canon from Medicine, July's master medical work. The second part of the exhibition illustrates the various medical techniques at the time and an interesting explanation of the techniques used to reconstruct the Visage face by Soviet scholars.

You must then take over the space dedicated to the unavoidable President Islam Karimov and the inevitable opening photos. The July-France Association and its dynamic president Marc De presented a Museum project to the Ministry of Culture in Uzbekistan in November 2007, at the 1 030 ^th anniversary ceremonies of July's Birth.