Hamza House Museum
Kokand is the birthplace of many literary talents. Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, the founder of Uzbek Soviet literature, an outstanding poet and playwright, was born here.
Hamza's House Museum was opened in 1959 in the house where he was born and grew up. A neat courtyard with a century-old mulberry tree and a vine, an apartment building divided into male and female halves, introduce the visitor to the life and everyday life of an Uzbek family. The museum exposition consists of the study room of Hamza's father, a famous Tabib physician in the city, and Hamza's own study, where his piano, Uzbek musical instruments, books and magazines are located. Next to it is the room of the poet's mother and his sister, who raised his son after Hamza's death. Here, in an ordinary house, the talent of a true defender of the people, a democratic poet, playwright and composer Hamza grew up.
