[3] The museum has seven permanent galleries incorporating history, present day culture, and ethnography.

[3] As of 2013, the museum was split into three sections: natural history, science, and the President of Turkmenistan.

However many are overly intricate, in pristine condition, and many thousand years old leading to questions about their authenticity.

[citation needed] It contains over 500,000 exhibits particularly archaeological and ethnographical finds throughout the country including rare works of ancient art, paintings, drawings, sculptures,[4] carpets, rugs, fabrics and clothing; household utensils, musical instruments, weapons, jewelry, medals, historical documents, horn-shaped vessels made of ivory, statuettes of Parthian goddesses and colourful Buddhist vases.

In this section are images of the president doing a wide variety of things, including harvesting crops with his citizens, racing autos, reading with children, playing sports, and meeting world leaders.