Main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan

About museum

1967 marked the final relocation for the Museum of Fine Arts of the Tatar ASSR, which moved into a mansion in the centre of Kazan. The manor-style mansion was built in the early 20th century for the commander of the Kazan Military District. Today this is the main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, which houses the museum administration, exhibition halls of foreign and Russian art from the 16th to the 20th centuries, a resource centre for the creative development of children and adolescents, a storage for collections, restoration workshops, a research archive, and a conference hall. A park with a fountain surrounds the mansion, and the museum's collection includes works of European and Russian painting, engravings, icon painting, the monographic collection of I. I. Shishkin, as well as a collection of early 20th-century Russian avant-garde. Equally notable is the preserved cast-iron fence, which is one of the best examples of Chebaksin artistic ironwork.