Khan's Palace. Museum of the History and Culture of the Crimean Tatars

About museum

The Bakhchisaray Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve is one of the most famous and visited museum-reserves in Crimea. It includes 138 monuments of history and architecture, and its collections hold more than 140,000 museum items. At present several museums are part of its structure: the Palace Museum itself, the Museum of the History and Culture of the Crimean Tatars, the Art Museum, the exhibition "Collection of Weapons of the 17th–19th centuries", and also the House-Museum of I. Gasprinsky, a well-known Crimean Tatar educator. The Khan's Palace is an extensive ensemble composed of several palace buildings: the main, residential, court, harem, a small palace mosque, the falcon tower, the large Khan's mosque Biyuk Khan Jami, the Gireev family cemetery (mezarlık), several inner courtyards and separate structures. It is a monument of world historical and cultural significance, the only example in the world of Crimean Tatar palace architecture.