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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as a contemporary artistic space, serves as a catalyst by providing opportunities to local artists to express their creativity in an entirely free and experimental way. At present it is the only venue in Dushanbe that encourages artists to apply innovative approaches to manifest their artistic visions. |
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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as the cultural actor of ACTED’s activities, is fully devoted to provide access to information and to vocational training. Educational activities aimed at artists and art professionals are organized with the firm belief that an understanding of national identity as well as social changes and development can originate from active participants of society. The role of an artist is, and always has been, the observer, the analyzer, and the initiator. |
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| One of the main information points in Bactria is its library, which has a collection of books in Tajik, Russian, English, German and French, focusing on mostly culture and history. Art books on the works of Michelangelo, Levitan, Vrubel, Aivazovsky, Theophanes the Greek, movies of Russian and Western avant-garde, and Italian Renaissance are the most valued pieces of the collection. |
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Collaboration with Behzod National Museum
 The Museum holdings include more than 50,000 objects of which less than 20% are on display. Ranging from 7th century decorated bone ossuary, Hellenic era column capitals to a finely carved 10th century mehrab (mosque prayer niche) the collection adequately demonstrates the transition of Iranian culture from the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic with its myriad of influences. Through proper conservation and presentation the museum has a unique opportunity to display the persistence of this diverse cultural heritage as it, so far, has not been presented in any Central Asian museum.
As an integral part of the restoration and pre-Islamic exhibition project, Bactria Cultural Centre is in the process of developing an exhibition guide “Pre-Islamic Heritage in Contemporary Tajik Culture” in Russian, English and in Tajik.
In June 2008, a two-day workshop was conducted by Bactria Cultural Centre, concentrating on the development of educational activities in the museum by introducing new, interactive teaching methods followed by practical training.
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Collaboration with the Museum of Antiquities
Inventory project of all ethnographic museums of Tajikistan
Handicrafts Fairs
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| Bactria Cultural Centre is engaged in projects that further capacity building and development of music industry in Tajikistan. First of all, it offers a venue to musicians through the organization of regular concerts where they can freely practice their creativity. We impose no limitation in the direction of musical genres, but we do promote world music and experiments based on the combination of traditional and contemporary music. |
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| If the context allows, Bactria Cultural Centre uner the auspices of ACTED, carries out heritage conservation and rehabilitation activities, if the heritage in question has been damaged or suffers from a lack of maintenance due to the difficulties facing the communities. |
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As a result of the continuous degradation of Tajik educational structure, from a unified primary and secondary education under the Soviets, barely 60 percent of Tajikistan’s current school-age population is receiving educational opportunities. Through opportunities for learning and vocational training BACTRIA aims at democratizing access to information and education. |
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Artistic Vision 
