Bakhchisaray Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve

About museum

The State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Crimea 'Bakhchisaray Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve' was founded in 1917 in the Khan's Palace, which had previously been the residence of the Crimean Khans. Today the museum-reserve includes numerous cultural heritage sites from different periods and cultures, as well as museums of the history and culture of the Crimean Tatars, the Ismail Gasprinsky Memorial Museum, an art museum, and a museum of archaeology and cave towns. Among them are the Khan's Palace ensemble, the fortress-city of Chufut-Kale, the cave towns of Mangup, Eski-Kermen, Kachi-Kalion and the Zyndzhirly Madrasa religious school. The museum-reserve holds over 140,000 items in its main collection and 50,000 in its auxiliary collection, including archaeological finds, ethnographic items of material culture, everyday life and decorative objects.