National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kazan
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National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Kazan. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects. Photo and descriptionThe National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan was founded as the Kazan City Scientific and Industrial Museum in 1894 and opened on April 5, 1895. The museum is based on the private collection of 40 thousand Andrei Fedorovich Likhachev (1832-90), a well-known archaeologist, historian, collector in the region, as well as exhibits of the scientific and industrial exhibition of 1890 Currently funds museums, numbering over 800 thousand units, comprehensively and systematically cover regional studies, are of significant value for studying and showing the nature of the republic, the history of the peoples of the Volga and Ural regions, Russia and the world. The museum's profile is complex: natural science, archaeological, ethnographic, cultural, historical, literary, musical. Among the most valuable collections is the Bulgar collection of A.F. Likhachev, a collection of excavations of Ananyinsky burial grounds, Egyptian and antique collections, collections of gold coins, ancient scrolls of the 17th century, handwritten books of the 15th - 20th centuries, memorial things of the figures of Tatar literature, decorative and applied art of Kazan Tatars, the memorial collection of G.R. Derzhavin , collection of monuments of historical taxidermy. The Museum occupies the building of the former Gostiny Dvor, which is an architectural and historical monument of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan. Notes
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