National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan

National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is the biggest research, cultural and educational organization in Tatarstan, which has a nationwide importance.

It was founded as a Kazan Scientific and Industrial Museum in 1894. On the 5th of April 1895 it was opened for the public.

The museum’s exposition was based on 40 thousands of exhibits from a collection of Andrey F. Likhachov (1830-1890), who was a well-known on this territory archaeologist, historian, collector, and on artifacts from a scientific and industrial exhibition that took place in 1890.

At ground zero of the museum collection's formation well-known scientists of Kazan University: A.A. Schtukenberg, N.P. Zagoskin, P.I. Krotov, N.F. Vysotsky, N.F. Katanov and others - worked. Fund of the museum was enriched by Kazan collectors and art patrons: I.F. Likhachov, F.A. Likhachov, V.I. Zausailov, O.S. Alexandrova-Gaynes, G. Galeev (Barudi), D.I. Obraztsov and others.

At the present moment the fund of the museum that includes 800 thousands of units of storage is sufficiently exhaustive and of considerable value for the study and demonstration of the Republic's nature, history of peoples living in the Volga Region and near the Urals, in Russia and all round the world.

The museum has a complex profile. Its exhibits are connected with Natural History, Archaeology, Ethnography, Culturology, History, Literature, and Music.

The museum occupies a building of a former Shopping Arcade. This building is a monument of the Russian

Federation's and the Tatarstan Republic's architecture and history.

Egyptian Collections

B. & B. Khanenkos' Museum of Western and Eastern Art

17, Tereschenkovskaya st.,
Kiev — Ukraine

The Museum of Western and Eastern Art was founded by Bogdan Ivanovitch Khanenko (1848–1917). He acquired the first objects when he became a student of the Faculty of Law of the Moscow University. In 1897 B.I. Khanenko headed the Kiev Society of Antiquities and Arts and became one of the founders of the Kiev Museum of National Art.

Egyptian Collections

Odessa State Archaeological Museum

4, Lanzheronovskaya st.
Odessa — Ukraine
Tel./ fax (0482) 22–63–02
http://www.arhaeology.farlep.odessa.ua/

Odessa State Archaeological Museum. Arch. F. Gonsiorovsky. 1883

Odessa State Archaeological Museum was founded in 1825. It was generously supported by the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities that was established in 1839 and had archaeological concessions at the south of Russia. Today the Museum has more than 160000 objects — monuments of ancient Black Sea coast, as well as Greece and Rome. The Museum also has a big numismatics collection, including 50000 coins minted in Ancient Greece, Rome, Byzantine and Russia.

Besides the Museum has the best Ancient Egyptian collection in Ukraine. It contains 11 coffins, 8 stelae, 20 scarabs, human and animal mummies, different figurines, jewelry, amulets and objects of daily life.