Kazan Museums

National Culture Centre "Kazan"                                                               

 In the National Culture Centre "Kazan" there is a museum of national culture, which exhibits history of anciaent Bolgar and Tatars in the Kama-Volga Region till the present days.     

Head: Rinat Z. Zakirov, Director

Address: Russia, 420060 Kazan, Pushkin St., 86

Phone: +7 (843) 2367841

National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

 Opened in 1895 as Kazan City Public Museum. The museum was based on the collection of A.F.Likhachev, a local lore scholar. The Museum is a treasury of the Republic`s museum valuables. Museum stock numbers over 700,000 items of Tatarstan and world culture. Since 1981 it has become a museum association incorporating 72 museum affiliates of historical, local lore, literary and memorial character.

Head: Gulchachak R. NAZIPOVA, General Director

Address: Russia, 420111, Kazan, Kremlevskaya St., 2

Phone: +7 (843) 2927162, Fax: +7 (843) 2921484

E-mail: tatar_museum mail.ru, Internet: http://www.tatar.museum.ru                                                                                  

Shishkin Memorial House

 The only country’s museum of the prominent Russian artist, a founder of realistic landscape painting.
Opened in 1960 in the house of the Shishkins where the artist spent his childhood and youth and which he later visited on repeated occasions in the days of his creative maturity. The appearance and furnishings of the living rooms were restored and the genuine works of the artist are displayed there.

Head: Larisa L. Bashkirova

Address: Russia, 423630 Yelabuga, Naberezhnaya, 12

Phone: +7 (85557) 41302

State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan

 The museum was founded in 1958 on the basis of the Picture Gallery of the State Museum of Tatarstan. The museum`s collection numbers over 21,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures. The largest collection is of drawings including those of Western European origin comprising works by artists of the Netherlands, Holland, Flanders, Italy, Germany such as Duhrer, Rembrandt, Luca of Leiden, Rubens` Studio. Unique collection of the Old Russian paintings of the late 15th - the early 19th centuries. Among the Russian Art collection are the works of D.Levitsky, I.Aivazovsky, K.Bryullov, V.Tropinin, A.Savrasov, V.Polenov, I.Repin, V.Serov, etc. Small collection of the Russian avant-garde artists of the late 19th - the early 20th centuries. Rich and diversified art of Tatarstan including unique and the world`s largest collection of N.I.Feshin`s paintings. Here you will also find rare archeological findings of the 7-8 centuries of the Bolgar craftsmen-ancestors of Kazan Tatars, including ornaments of silver, gold and semiprecious stones, colorful embroidery on the towels, footwear with a multi-colored leather mosaic and sacred shamails.

Head: Alfiya A. Toutayeva, Director

Address: Russia, 420015 Kazan, K.Marx St., 64

Phone: +7 (843) 2366931, Fax: +7 (843) 2361865, E-mail: neiron bancorp.ru