Head: Talgat K. Gumarov, director
Address: 422755, Russia, Tatarstan, Arsk district. Noviy Kyrlay village
Phone: +7 (84366) 56710, 56716
The Museum Complex of G.Tukay is located in Noviy Kurlay, Arsky district, Tatarstan
Gabdulla Tukay (1886-1913) is a great Tatar poet. G.Tukay Museum is located in Noviy Kurlay, Arsky district, Tatarstan since 1960s. At the very beginning there worked only volunteers and it was a part of the Secondary school named after Gabdulla Tukay. In 1976 the Museum became a state institution and in 1979 it was opened in a separate building. Baki Urmanche, an Honoured Art Worker of RSFSR, was the architecture of it.
The Museum is located on the bank of the Iya river in the public green place with the total area of three hectares.
The Museum pieces are kept in six parts and in the territory of a peasant Sagdy’s homestead.
One part of the Museum is devoted to the village history and contemporaries of the poet, his fellow-villagers.
Archival materials that represent the work of the poet are the base of the exposition.
The main building of the Museum is two-storeyed, made of pine. Sagdy’s homestead represents a homestead of Tatar peasant of the end of XIXth – beginning of the XXth centuries.
The most valuable collections:
The collection of G.Tukay works published in his lifetime.
The collection of sculptures of Baki Urmanche, a People’s Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The collection of clothes and life items of Kazan Tatars of the end of XIXth – beginning of the XXth centuries.
The collection of paintings of popular Tatar artists.
Kazan “Bulgar” hotel furniture.
Original belongings of G.Tukay friends and relatives.
