What to do and see in Kazan, Volga District: The Best Art Museums

“Smena” Center of Contemporary Culture is an independent institution that started in Kazan in 2013. It regularly hosts exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, publishes books, and holds major city events. For seven years the team of the Center has been forming an extensive program consisting of educational, popular science, educational and cultural events — exhibitions of contemporary art, screening of documentary and feature films, meetings with authors, lectures, and discussions. “Smena” also initiates studies of urban space and local history subjects — later they are published as books or exhibited in the Center’s gallery. Besides, “Smena” is the only independent bookstore in the city. It represents new independent and niche publishing houses, books of the main intellectual publishing houses on art, children’s illustrated literature, and much more.

House of Tatar culture and craft is a new type of Museum: preserving and presenting the life of the Tatar people, which allows you to plunge into an indescribable atmosphere - a culture of existence,smells,tastes... I would like to mention that our house interactive,in which the exhibits can be touched, to feel hands. If You want to visit our "House of Tatar culture and crafts", especially at weekends, please contact us in any convenient way for You,please book your comfortable time

The Museum of Kazan Icons is a unique and one-of-a-kind must-visited place for guests and residents of Kazan. The Museum of Kazan Icons contains monuments of iconography, painted in gold more than 100 years ago in the workshop of the Kazan monastery of the Theotokos, one of the oldest and most famous in the Middle Volga region. Our Museum is located next to the Kazan Kremlin, in the immediate vicinity of the Kazan monastery of the Theotokos, in the house of the Kazan Mayor of the beginning of the XIX century, recreated according to the drawings of the 1840s, that is, on the site associated with the history of finding the miraculous Kazan image and other events of Kazan history. The Kazan Icon Museum is equipped with modern museum and multimedia equipment, which will allow you to get acquainted with each exhibit in detail, learn more about the history of the city of Kazan, the Kazan monastery of the Theotokos and its icon-painting workshop.

The collection of paintings in the gallery "House Art" consists of the works of artists of the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as graduates of the Kazan Art College named after Feshin. The traditions of the Kazan art school were laid down by such masters as Nikolai Feshin, Sergey Vshivtsev, Pavel Radimov and many others.