The museum

His widow Marhabo and his eldest daughter Munira decided the house should become a museum, and in 1987 they opened it. In 1989 it became the Republican Museum of Musical Culture named after Ziyodullo Shahidi, the first museum devoted to music in Tajikistan.

It holds manuscripts and scores in his hand, gramophone records, his papers, and instruments: his own, and those of Shohnazar Sohibov, Fazliddin Shakhobov, Fozil Soliev, A’zam Kamolov and other masters of the maqam. For decades the house was where the musicians of Central Asia came when they were in Dushanbe, and some of what is in the museum arrived that way.

The Foundation, the journal, the festivals and the work abroad all started here. Asked in July 2026 when the systematic work on her father’s legacy had begun, Munira put it at the founding of the museum in 1987, with the Foundation five years behind it. On 14 May 2026 the museum held an evening in his memory. Jahongir Rasulov sang Muhabbat, on words by Mirzo Tursun-zade, and the opera singer Libuše Santorišová sang Komde’s romance.

Its address has changed, and we are not certain what it is now. See Visit before you travel.