From October 10 to 30, large-scale restoration work was carried out at the State Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan to preserve the ancient mosaic collection from Margiana.

As reported by ussatnews.com, Galina Versotskaya—a top-tier art conservator from the Department of Scientific Restoration at the State Research Institute for Restoration of Russia—was brought in to carry out complex conservation work.

The project was implemented within the framework of international cooperation between the National Administration for the Protection, Study, and Restoration of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the N. N. Miklukho-Maklay Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).