Zelenodolsk Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography

Zelenodolsk Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography regularly works from the twenty-first of October one thousand nine hundred and eightieth year. The museum employs twelve employees and two researchers. The museum collection includes more than seven thousand items, six thousand items of the collection are presented in the exposition and are included in the main funds of the museum. The Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography was created in order to revive and promote folk art crafts of Tatarstan: jewelry, ceramics, mosaics on the skin, gold embroidery, weaving, carving and wood painting. The museum revives these crafts through practical training, creating studios of craftsmen. At the museum, amateur associations work on the revival of traditional Tatar craft - mosaic on leather and bead embroidery, as well as weaving lace on whooping coughs, dowsing, etc. The Zelenodolsk Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography operates in the form of a non-profit institution of historical specialization, that is, it does not have as the main goal of its activity the extraction of profit and does not distribute the profit received between the participants. Zelenodolsk Museum of Folk Art and Ethnography is an organization of municipal subordination. The museum is primarily engaged in cultural activities.