Kazan Chemical School Museum

About museum

The Kazan Chemical School Museum is a unique place, built in 1837 for the physics and chemistry laboratory of Kazan University. It was founded by A. M. Butlerov in 1863, when he appointed the museum's first curator — pharmacist A. I. Loman, who worked there for more than twenty years. This museum has no conventional display cases or stands. Here you can see Butlerov's lecture hall, a library (about 8,000 items in storage), the laboratory itself, a hall exhibiting chemical reagents and laboratory equipment of the 19th–20th centuries, as well as the office of the head of the laboratory. Regular lectures and master classes are also held here. This museum is the only 19th-century memorial museum in the world that has become a worthy legacy for subsequent generations.

Regular lectures and master classes are also held at the museum.