N. I. Lobachevsky Museum

About museum

The N. I. Lobachevsky Museum was opened on December 1, 2017, in honor of the 225th anniversary of the great scientist's birth. It is located on the second floor of the rector's house of Kazan University. The museum's exhibition is devoted to the life and work of N. I. Lobachevsky as a professor, rector of the university, and creator of non-Euclidean geometry. The museum displays documentary materials, books, and memorial items of N. I. Lobachevsky, and also recreates the interior of the blue drawing room of the Lobachevsky family home. The museum also has an exhibition hall consisting of three rooms, where temporary exhibitions from the collections of Kazan University museums and city museums are held. Here you can learn more about the emergence and development of the ideas of non-Euclidean geometry, the history of the Kazan school of geometry, and the laureates of the N. I. Lobachevsky Prize.