the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It is hoped Mkrtychev will take up his position at the Nukus Museum of Art after travel restrictions resulting from the COVID crisis are removed. Friends of Nukus Museum Set up initially in Tashkent as an informal group during the early 1990s and later registered in Karakalpakstan as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in 2001, the Friends of Nukus Museum (FoNM) is a small, but dedicated international network of advocates and supporters. In 2007, it was re-constituted as the Friends of Nukus Museum Foundation, based in the Netherlands. References External links Website, via Wayback Machine Website of The Desert of Forbidden Art, documentary film about the Nukus Museum of Art 1966 establishments in the Soviet Union Museums established in 1966 Russian avant-garde Art museums and galleries in Uzbekistan Nukus