In recent years, Kazan has become one of the most attractive tourist centers of Tatarstan. Everything is interesting in it, including many museums. It is very convenient that many of them are concentrated in the city center. So their viewing does not take time to travel. Many museums are located either near the Kazan Kremlin or in the Kremlin itself. Moreover, admission to the Kremlin is free, and only in each individual museum is it paid.
Museum
One of such unusual and interesting museums that have won the love of adults and children is the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan. The address at which it is located coincides with the Khazine National Art Gallery. This: Kazan, st. Kremlin, house 2. These museums are located in the premises of the former cadet school, which is located along the street that runs inside the Kremlin from the Spasskaya Tower to Tainitskaya.
Museum building
The school was established in eighteen sixty-six. The author of the project is architect Pyatnitsky. First, barracks for the cantonists were located in the building, and twenty years later a military school was opened here, which later became a cadet school. The facade of the house is built in the style of Pavlovsky Empire. It has three entrances with forged canopies. When making them, they chose the Chebaksin forging technique. Roses, cornflowers and mascarons are woven into the forging pattern. The stairs here are three-flight and rest on arches and arches of brick. Before the revolution, the building had only two floors, and only in the Soviet period was the third floor completed. In the mid-nineties, the building began restoration, which successfully ended by the beginning of the 2000s.
Now there are several museums here. In addition to the Khazine National Gallery and the Museum of Natural History, several halls are occupied by a memorial museum dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and a branch of the St. Petersburg Hermitage - the Hermitage Kazan exhibition hall.
Description
The Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan occupies two floors, on which more than one and a half thousand exhibits are presented. They decided to open it in two thousand and five. The purpose of the discovery is to preserve the nature of the republic.
It is better to start visiting the museum from the first floor to see the entire period of the origin of the planets, the earth and its inhabitants. All exhibits are very interesting, and you don’t want to miss a single one.
On this floor it will be more interesting for those who love to study everything that is in the depths of our planet and beyond, that is, astronomy geology. This is the general structure that the museum of natural history of Tatarstan has. The description of each exposition will introduce tourists closer to the history of the republic and wake up the desire to visit this wonderful historical place. The museum was created at the direction of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic. The project was supported and became a construction trustee by the first President of Tatarstan Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimiev
The expositions that the museum of the natural history of Tatarstan is based on are the rarest scientific findings from the fund of the Geological Museum named after A.A. Stukenberg at Kazan State University. Here visitors can visit different halls.
Halls of space
Using interactive programs, they will introduce astronomy enthusiasts to the basics of this wonderful science. Interactive programs will create an atmosphere of immersion in the history of space objects. Visitors like real space travelers fall into the world of space. Stars for many centuries attract representatives of the human race.
This interest is supported by museum staff. Here you can also watch the stars with the help of a real telescope and check how much the visitor will weigh on other planets. For this, special space scales are installed in the museum. Also here, visitors will be shown real meteorites that once fell in the territory of Tatarstan. The exhibitions located here will tell about the structure of the earth's crust, the huge variety of minerals on our planet. The interactive cut of the planet is amazing, on which the winners see what layers our Earth consists of.
This exhibition should popularize knowledge about how diverse the world of minerals on the planet.
Interesting rooms
“Black Gold of the Planet” is a series of exhibits that acquaint visitors with oil-bearing layers, a bitumen lake and mud volcanoes.
No less interesting is the hall in the form of a malachite box, which tells visitors about various minerals. This hall is called "Pantry bowels".
Halls for animal lovers
What else is a museum of natural history of Tatarstan good for? Photos are allowed to be taken here as some exhibits, as well as themselves against their background. This distinguishes this museum from all others, where there are paintings, photographs cannot be taken. The second floor gradually transfers visitors to the animal world.
The paleontological exhibition, housed in six rooms, is also very interesting. The Vendian Sea diorama shows the period of the era when multicellular organisms originated on the planet. It happened six hundred million years ago.
The “Beginning of the Way” hall introduces visitors to the inhabitants of the seas of that period. Especially fascinating are the exhibits of preserved skeletons of amphibians that lived in ancient seas. With the help of interactive programs, any visitor can observe the gradual transition of amphibians to land. Such expositions as “The Kingdom of Fishes and Amphibians”, “Kazan Sea”, “Sea Reptiles”, “The World of Mammals” and others will be interesting to all lovers of the animal world.
Children are especially delighted with the skeletons of a titanophonus, pareiosaurus and marine reptiles. An interactive program even allows you to feed them. The hologram on the entire wall is fascinating, along which saber-toothed tigers and mammoths walk. Visitors get the full effect of being among huge prehistoric animals that can even be stroked.
How to get there
The Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan is located in the historical center of the city, then it is not difficult to get to it. Transport travels from any remote area. In any case, every resident of the city will tell you where the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan in Kazan is located - everyone knows the address. You can get there by bus or by trolley. By these means of transport you need to get to the stops “Central Stadium” and “Baturin Street”.
Unfortunately, the metro does not yet go to the bus station and railway station, which crowns the city of Kazan. The Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan is directly accessible only for land modes of transport. Upon reaching the nearest metro station, you can transfer to it to get further to the Kremlin station. On the other hand, those who want to see the city and are not afraid of unnecessary walking can also reach the railway station on foot, which is not very far.
Opening hours and ticket prices
The Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan in Kazan is open every day, except Monday, from ten in the morning until six in the evening, but it is necessary to approach no later than half past five, since the ticket office closes half an hour before the museum closes.
The cost of tickets is small, adults will pay 120 rubles, for students tickets cost 60, for students - 50 rubles. But if visitors want to book an excursion, they will have to pay 400 for one floor and 700 rubles for two. But if the museum is visited by children in a large group, then for them the tour is free.
Conclusion
Multimedia and interactivity is exactly what makes the Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan interesting for both children and adults. That is why in this place there are always a lot of visitors and reviews are beyond praise. The most important positive review is that the museum is never boring and the children who got into it do not want to leave it for a long time. Adults with pleasure remember what they knew from childhood.