Sh. Mannur Memorial Museum-Library

About museum

The Shaihi Mannur Museum-Library is a special place dedicated to the writer, poet and folklorist Shaihi Mannur. A particularly valuable source of information is the writer's archive, consisting of personal documents, manuscripts and books from Shaihi Mannur's personal library bearing inscriptions and autographs of prominent figures of Tatar literature. Here you can see his first collection of poems, the autobiographical novella "Looking at the Flowing Waters" and the novel "Musa." The museum also presents translations of Shaihi Mannur into Tatar and Russian, as well as a rich ethnographic collection that includes clothing, footwear, headwear, jewelry and household items of the Tatar people. In total, the museum houses 5,512 exhibits.