State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve "Kazan Kremlin"

The Museum of the History of the Statehood of the Tatar People and the Republic of Tatarstan is located in the oldest center of the Kazan Kremlin, which united the memorial territory of the Khan’s court with the power functions that have survived to this day, the necropolis of Kazan rulers and the symbol of Kazan – the Syuyumbike Tower.

The museum reveals the history of ethnogenesis and the formation of the statehood of the Tatar people and their ancestors. The chronology of the exhibition exceeds two thousand years.

The ancestors of the Tatar people took part in the creation of such powerful empires of antiquity and the Middle Ages as the Hun State, the Great Turkic Khaganate, Bulgaria in the Azov Region, Volga Bulgaria, Ulus Jochi (Golden Horde), the Kazan Khanate, and from the second half of the XVI century the history of the Tatars was continued in the Russian state.

The exposition of the museum includes a number of items of special historical value as evidence of the high development of the statehood and culture of the Turks. Among them, a unique Czech coin of the X century found on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin, which, together with a complex of finds of the X-XI centuries, is the justification of the millennial age of Kazan; a masterpiece of jewelry art of the XIII century is a golden temporal suspension in the form of a duck, embodying an ancient Turkic story about the emergence of the world. Many other authentic objects presented in the exposition are also interesting - evidence of high material culture of the era of Volga Bulgaria, the Golden Horde and the Kazan Khanate.

The history of the Tatar people from the second half of the XVI to the present day is represented by heraldic symbols, documentary and photographic materials, state awards of the Republic of Tatarstan, documents of international importance.

The exposition of the museum helps to create an idea of the state structure, religious views, the level of development of material culture in different historical periods at different stages of the Turkic statehood.