Alisher Navoiy Park

Large walk-through aquarium with a variety of habitats and the obligatory shark.

This madrassa was erected in 1850 in honour of the scholar Abdulkhasim Khan. It's now a crafts outlet.

Charming small museum of traditional arts and crafts, in a 19th-century merchant's mansion.

Pleasant park with a boating lake.

This cod-classical bling mansion was the residence of the country's first President, Islam Karimov (1938-2016). He was an engineer who worked his way up the communist hierarchy and then upon independence ran a regime every bit as brutal and oppressive. He was re-elected again and again by rigged ballots. The mansion is now government offices, no visits, but is flanked by a small museum to his glory open Tu-Su.

Ikuo Hirayama (平山 郁夫, 1930-2009) painted dreamy scenes of the Silk Road across central Asia. His legacy funded this exhibition space for contemporary Uzbek art, his own work isn't displayed here.