Ethnographic Museum of Russia

The Ethnographic Museum tells about the culture of the peoples of the Middle Volga region, Russia and the world in general through unique, unusual and diverse items. In the Hall of the Peoples of the World visitors will find Australian boomerangs and a club made of real shark teeth, a chief's stick from the Pacific Islands, magical African masks, fish skin robes from the Far East, Siberian shaman's costume, Chinese curved shoes for bandaged women's feet, Buddhist statuettes with Sansara - the Wheel of Life, and, of course, a real mummy of a girl from Peru! In the hall of the peoples of the Middle Volga region you will find clothes, shoes, jewelry, toys and household items of the peoples of our region - Tatars, Russians, Chuvash, Mari, Mordva, Udmurts. You will also be met by unusual residents of the museum - full-length mannequins of the peoples of the world: a Maori chief from New Zealand, a man and a woman from Africa, an American Sioux Indian, a Brazilian aborigine Botocudo with a pierced lip and ears, a Chinese official “mandarin” and a Chinese woman. And all this and much more - in the historical space of the museum in the main building of Kazan University with classic old cabinets of the XIX century and inexpressible university atmosphere.