Hybridization of museum practices: state and confessional experiments in mosques of Kazakhstan

The article analyzes the cases of organizing activities Islamic museums in regional mosques, which appeared as a result participation state power, branches Spiritual Administration Muslims Kazakhstan and other stakeholders. author posits that Rukhaniyat Museum located at Nur-Gasyr Mosque Aktobe region, Culture situated Khalifa Altai East represent initial undertakings towards comprehensive implementation Soviet museum methodologies to showcase suppressed pre-Soviet legacy. emergence hybrid forms coexistence between mosque has made it challenging for researchers categorize these institutions using existing classifications Kazakhstan. One is run by government body, while managed branch country's primary institution. This distinction evident way each presents its exhibits communicates with local community. In general, argued hybridization practices taking place, mosques are becoming place compromise all stakeholders heritage secular Both power religious demonstrating their own approaches representation within this context.