NEWS

On January 18, the Museum Selfie action is going to be held all around the world. The Museum of Fine Arts will traditionally join this action, while the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan is going to give awards for participation this year. Annual pass to the museum and its branches will be given to those who will get the most of Likes for their pictures. The action is held for the fourth year in a row and appeals to make visiting museums more popular.

Kazan took the forth place as one of the most popular destinations among foreign tourists who visited Russia during the New Year’s holidays in 2017.

According to the RoomGuru.ru service information, foreign tourists stayed at hotels of Kazan for two nights at average, by paying 4,1 thousand rubles for day and night. To be compared: in Moscow the tourists paid 4,3 thousand rubles for three nights, in St. Petersburg – 3,9 thousand rubles for three nights, and in Vladivostok – 3,4 thousand rubles for two and a half nights.

On January, 26 the exhibition room of the State Museum Preserve in Yelabuga is going to throw open the doors to a real fairy-tale which was created by Alexandra Druzhinina. The exhibition “Music of silence” will tell of the wonderful nature of the country by inviting to the magical world of little tiny drops and insects. The photographs and paintings of Alexandra, filled with light and goodness, will lead you through the spring woodlands and phantasies inspired by Yelabuga.

Starting from January, 17 the renewed exposition “Petersburg modern. Years 1890-1910. Style and high society fashion” will be available for visitors of the “Hermitage-Kazan” center. In the course of rotation 28 art works were changed, among them photographs of the end of XIX – beginning of XX centuries and “dry needle technique” graphical works of the French artist Paul César Helleu. 

The resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan dated 11.04.2003 No. 198 establishes the Republic of Tatarstan Government Quality Bonuses which are organizations awarded with yearly based on competition, for achieving significant results in the field of production and services quality and safety ensuring, as well as for high-efficiency management techniques implementation.

XIII open competition to get the Republic of Tatarstan Government Quality Bonus is held in the Republic of Tatarstan in 2017. Procedure and conditions for conducting of the competition are specified in the guide for participants placed together with a request form on the website www.pcq.ru.

The highest touristic activity was during the period of the 3rd till 6th of January.

On 2016, at the same period, the tourist flow was 130.000 tourists. One of the factors of decreasing the tourist flow was the tightening of the rules, considering the school groups trips and children carriage, which caused the cancelling of pre-booked tours.

Nowadays the State Committee is working under creation of special touristic routes for representatives of Tatar Diaspora, living outside the Republic of Tatarstan (includingliving abroad), which will contain visits to national objects, national festivals, diving into the history, culture and traditions of Tatar nation.

The formal opening of the new exposition of the city history Museum will be on January 12, at 14:30 in Elabuga State museum preserve. It is possible thanks to the support of the Russian Federation Ministry of culture within the federal target program “The Russian Culture (2012-2018 years)” and grant from the Tatarstan Republic government. The sizeable portion was done by the museum preserve at its sole earnings.

The last exposition of the city history Museum was opened by the first president of the Tatarstan Republic Mintimer Shaimiev in 2007 at the 1000th anniversary of Elabuga-city.

The Museum of statehood history of the Tatarstan Republic invites all Kazan citizens and guests to the creative meeting with artists of the Tatar State Academic Kamal theatre within the exhibition “The Tatar cultural code: 100 years to the first Tatar theatre” on January 12, at 15:00.

The formal opening of two exhibitions will be held at the showroom of the National Elabuga museum preserve on January 12, at 14.00

The first – “Alen’kii cvetochek” (The Scarlett Flower). It is the common project of the Elabuga National museum preserve and Orenburg regional museum of pictural art, dedicated to 225th anniversary of the writer S.T. Aksakov birth. The exposition contains two sections: childrens’ paintings of the Petrovskaya village Saraktashskii region pupils and paintings of the naïve artists (who have no artistic eductation, but have the artistic talent).