The historic-architectural and art museum-reserve "The Kazan Kremlin" was set up by Decree of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan as of 22 January September 1994. Kazan Kremlin is the medieval fortress with a regular planning and building system of the 16th-19th centuries, with revealed archaeological fragments of fortifications and structures of the llth-12th centuries. It includes several historically shaped architectural-archaeological complexes: this is the complex of fortification structures, the Kul Sharif mosque, the Governor's House with Syuyumbike tower, the Annunciation Cathedral with Consistory and Bishop's House, Public Offices, the Saviour-Transfiguration (Spaso-Preobrazhensky) Monastery, the Military School and the Artillery (Cannon) Foundry. In territory of museum-reserve expositions of museums are opened: the Museum of history of statehood of Tatar people and Republic Tatarstan, the Center "Hermitage-Kazan", the Museum of Islamic culture, the Museum of natural history of Tatarstan.