The Master Jury of the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA) has announced laureates and finalists for the Awards’ inaugural cycle and the Gurminj Museum is among 2019 AKMA laureates. The Gurminj Museum and Farhod Halimov, a singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer from Samarqand, Uzbekistan, have become laureates in the Preservation, Revitalisation and Dissemination category. The Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments (or Gurminj Museum) is a museum located in the center of Dushanbe. The museum was founded in 1990 by renowned Tajik actor and musician Gurminj Zavqibekov Gurminj Zavqibekov (1929–2003). There are about 100 musical instruments in the Museum collection mostly representing the Pamiri and Badakhshani musical tradition.