National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan: expositions

On the central street of Kazan, next to the Kremlin, is the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. The building is a historical building. Until 1895, it housed the Gostiny Dvor. In addition to the main building, the museum has 13 more branches, where the historical and cultural heritage of Tatarstan is kept.

Destinations of the museum

The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is a research center. It includes activities related to scientific and methodological developments, work with funds, cultural-educational and publishing activities. The carried out researches are carried out in the field of history, literature, natural sciences, ethnography. The museum makes a great contribution to the history of the culture of the Republic through its work.

The museum conducts ethnographic, archaeological, historical and everyday expeditions. This is one of the priority areas of its activities. The knowledge obtained during the excavations becomes the key to understanding ethnic, cultural and historical facts. From the beginning of the 20th century, ethnographic studies were conducted in different regions of the Republic. One of the most valuable and large of them is the study of the ancient Bolgar, the capital of the Volga Bulgaria.

Today, the area of scientific design of museums, exhibitions and collections is being studied. Priority is the direction of stock collections, dedicated to the famous dates of history.

Publishing is an important direction. The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan annually publishes scientific works and catalogs. Before the opening of expositions or exhibitions, posters and booklets are printed.

Collections

The museum now stores about 910 thousand items. Its archaeological foundation is one of the largest. It includes an ancient and medieval collection. He also keeps a unique Bulgarian collection, which consists of a variety of jewelry belonging to different historical epochs. The pearl of the foundation are the monuments of the cultures of the Volga region and the Kama region - these are the complexes of tombstones, ancient settlements belonging to different epochs.

The museum stores antique, Egyptian collections, objects of India, China, Japan, the Far East and many others.

Ethnographic collection protects the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Volga-Kama region. It includes household items, samples of national costumes, calfaki, skullcaps, namazlyki, jewelry, shoes, musical instruments.

The numismatic collection consists of more than one hundred thousand titles. It includes coins, banknotes, tokens, badges, medals, awards from different countries and different eras. The collection features Golden Horde, Oriental, West European, Russian coins, as well as coins of the times of Alexander the Great and Byzantium.

The collection of the written fund includes about 130 thousand titles. It includes scrolls and letters of the XVI-XVII centuries. The collection stores about 300 personal meetings. It includes scientific works, works of cultural figures, archives of professors, politicians, as well as a collection of early printed books and manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Tatar.

The memorial collection includes works created in the XIX-XX centuries by the figures of Russian and Tatar culture.

Expositions

The museum's profile is local history. It contains information on different cultural and historical epochs. The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan presents expositions from the point of view of the unification of nature, culture and history of various peoples.

Exhibitions are focused on topics related to the ancient and medieval history of Tatarstan, money circulation, trade, Kazan province.

The exposition "The Ancient History of Tatarstan" presents artifacts dating from the Stone Age to the end of the first millennium AD. It is built in such a way that it shows the life activity and life of peoples living on the territory of the region in ancient times. The exposition consists of several sections. One of them is called "Man and Environment". It shows how a person interacted with nature in the course of evolution. The next section is called The World of Things. He demonstrates mastering and technological methods of processing bones, stone, bronze, iron. The third section is called "Home and the outside world". It shows the reconstructed dwelling of the epoch of the beginning of the Iron Age.

The exposition "Medieval History of Tatarstan" presents artifacts related to Volga-Kama Bulgaria, the state of the X-XIII centuries. It is based on archaeological finds from the territories of settlements. These include tools, jewelry, pottery, fragments of the design of buildings and streets.

The exposition "Commodity-money relations and trade routes in the X-XV centuries" shows coins, trade items and cartographic materials. They are evidence of the fact that in the Middle Ages the region had various trade links.

The exposition "Kazan Province in the XVIII Century" demonstrates the most important milestones in the history of the region. It presents items relating to the periods of the reign of Peter I and Catherine II.

The exposition "The Tatar Golden Pantry" demonstrates Tatar jewelry of the XVII-XIX centuries. It is unique.

Excursions

The museum provides several excursion destinations. The sightseeing tour passes within the walls of the main building. She introduces exhibits, tells about their history. Visitors are presented 8 topics of excursions.

Museum routes, in addition to the expositions of the main building, offer to get acquainted with the collections located in different parts of the city. To the services of visitors there are such programs as "Legends of Kazan", "How Time Rolls in Kazan Golden", "Pages of Musical History of Kazan", "And the World Remembers ...". The duration of each route is an average of 2.5 hours.

The museum offers pedestrian, bus and suburban excursions. Also there is an opportunity to attend master classes with a variety of topics.

When buying an entrance ticket to the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, the price depends on the visitor's preferences and the type of services provided. The cost of visiting excursions and museum routes is different. It is directly related to the saturation of the program and the number of participants. Entrance ticket without excursion service will cost schoolchildren in 50, pensioners - 70, adults - 120 rubles, students - free of charge.

The services

The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan offers to listen to lectures that tell about the history of the city of Kazan, famous people, legends, the history of the museum building and much more. In addition, there are lectures and shows, during which museum items are displayed. Their duration is 45 minutes.

The museum has a library, where about 19,000 copies are stored today. It can be used by all visitors to the museum by appointment.

The museum fund also offers its services. At his visit you can use manuscripts, old printed books and objects. It is possible to photograph museum items.

The museum has a restoration workshop. In it specialists restorers work on wood, paper, metal, cloth. Items are restored for the central museum, its branches and for other expositions.

Museum Clubs

Museum work includes cultural and educational programs and activities. Within the walls of the museum and its branches there are several clubs - Sovremennik, the club of lovers of Kazan antiquities, The Guardian of Antiquities, Local History Wednesdays, The Music Room, and The Literary Salon. Military-historical club "Vityaz" is engaged in studying the history of military art, fencing, reconstruction of objects. The club takes part in all-Russian and international events. He is the organizer of the festival "Zilantkom", the tournament "East-West", implements the project "Beznen Tari" ("Our history").

All clubs are creative and research communities with free participation. In the process of work, speeches and discussions take place. The National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan invites you to take part in the study of history, literature, crafts and much more. Such an occupation will make leisure cognitive, broaden the horizon.

In studying the history of such a beautiful city as Kazan, the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan will be an excellent guide and source of information.