Chak-Chak Museum

Compare the two rows of windows from the street. If you have booked a museum session, look inside for objects that belonged on the family tea table.

Getting there

Ploshchad Tukaya metro station, clock on Bauman Street › Bauman Street › Universitetskaya Street › Baturinsky Bridge › Parizhskoy Kommuny Street

From the bronze clock, follow Bauman Street to the Shalyapin Palace Hotel. Turn left down Universitetskaya Street to the Bulak Canal. Cross Baturinsky Bridge and continue straight along Parizhskoy Kommuny Street, past the mosque on the corner of Moskovskaya Street, to No. 18A.

Beside the museum, peer into the gap between the two houses. Vafa Bigayev Lane opened during restoration of the estate.

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History

Each row of windows in this yellow house once looked out on a different life. Merchant Vafa Bigayev sold groceries downstairs while his family lived upstairs. He could go down to meet customers without leaving the property. When the Chak-Chak Museum opened here in 2014, its founders used old photographs of Tatar homes in and around Kazan to furnish it. They also contributed objects of their own. The chest on which Raushaniya slept as a child now keeps company with baskets and sugar tongs from Dmitry’s family.

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