NEWS

"For the first time" is the real key word for the exhibition "Turks, Moors, Tatars - Moslems of Prussia and Germany", which opens in the Museum of Islamic Culture of the open-air Museum "the Kazan Kremlin" on June 23, at 11:00.

This is the first exposition, being presented as a part of the long-term international research project "Tatar materials in foreign archives", which is developed by the Institute of History named after Sh.Marjani of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan. Exhibits from eight institutions in Germany: museums, archives, libraries and private collections are displayed in the Open-air Museum for the first time. Curators of the exhibition are Dr.Stefan Taylig, Director of the Brandenburg-Prussian Museum (Wustrau) and Dr.Miste Hotop-Rikke, director of the Institute of Caucasian, Tatar and Turkestan Studies (ICATAT) from Magdeburg.