This museum occupies the site of the royal apartments where Zahiruddin Babur lived and studied as a boy within Ark-Ichy, the town’s long-gone citadel. Born in 1483 in Andijon to Fergana’s ruler, Umar Sheikh Mirzo (a descendant of Timur), Babur inherited his father’s kingdom before he was even a teenager. The young king took Samarkand at the tender age of 14, but subsequently lost both Samarkand and Fergana and was driven into Afghanistan by the Uzbek Shaybanids before ultimately going on to found the Mughal Empire in India. However, this museum focuses on Babur's literary exploits, specifically his Baburnama, a vast memoir of Babur's fascinating and tumultuous life.
