The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty.The museum opened on 16 September 1976, based on the collections of the Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery and the Republic Museum of Decorative and Applied Art . In 1984, the museum was renamed to honour the Kazakh artist Abilkhan Kasteev .
The museum has a collection of over 23,000 works, including historic and contemporary Kazakhstan art, works from the Soviet era , Russian artworks , Western European art , and art from East Asia .The Kasteyev museum is especially noted for its collection of late works of distinguished sculptor Isaac Itkind and Kazakh painting and sculpture, likely to be the largest in the world, including works by N. Nurmukhammedov, M. Kim, K. Yeserkeyev, K. Mullashev, T. Abuov and Y. Tolepbai.
