The Dashoguz Bagshi Museum celebrates the 15th anniversary. It is not occasional that the first museum in the country to present the art of folk musicians and narrators was opened in Dashoguz, the homeland of many legendary singers such as Magtymguly Garlyev, Palvan-khoja bagshi, Palta Garaev and others known well and highly respected in the region. The patron of singers and musicians in the Orient Ashik Aidyn Pir is from these places.

The display presenting the people famous all over the northern region for their outstanding workmanship in folk singing and performing achieved in different times opens the exposition. Several stands with the photographs, the materials on the life and creative activities are devoted to the most popular bagshis - Magtymguly Garlyev, who was born in the Ilyala Etrap in 1889, Palvan bagshi and Palta Garaev.

The modern artists’ achievements are presented at the museum - the copy of the diploma Durdybai Gurbanov from the Gubadag Etrap. Durdybai Gurbanov participated in the International Folk Music Festival in Paris and the diploma that Bahargul Galpakova received at the Issyk Kul International Popular and Folk Music Television Festival.

Some displays are devoted to the famous bagshis’ accompanists, who played the dutar and gijak.

The museum displays tell about the women bagshis and the Uzbek bagshis, who are very popular in the Dashoguz Velayat. The museum houses the library that includes over 1,000 books, brochures, archival documents on the folk arts and the audio and video cassettes with the bagshis' performances.

The museum specialists have erased many gaps in the history of the art of folk singing and restored the brightest pages of the bagshis’ creative activity. The museum often hosts seminars for cultural workers, the meetings of schoolchildren with the artists, famous bagshis and beginners who maintain the traditions inherited from the outstanding tutors.

A new exposition devoted to the modern famous musicians and versatile artists, who propagate the Turkmen music and classical poetry, has been opened at the museum this year. The photographs and cassettes with the bagshis' performances presenting the ‘golden’ television and radio find replenished the museum collection.