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| National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan |
National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
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.
В настоящее время фонды музея, насчитывающие свыше 800 тыс. единиц, исчерпывающе и системно охватывают краеведческую тематику, представляют значительную ценность для изучения и показа природы республики, истории народов Поволжья и Приуралья, России и мира. Профиль музея - комплексный: естественнонаучный, археологический, этнографический, культурологический, исторический, литературный, музыкальный. Музей занимает здание бывшего Гостиного двора, являющееся памятником архитектуры и истории Российской Федерации и Республики Татарстан.
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National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is the biggest research, cultural and educational organization in Tatarstan, which has a nationwide importance.