You might want to spend some time browsing the exhibits at Anatomical Museum, Soviet Lifestyle Museum, or National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan. While you're exploring, swing by Bauman Street, Anniversary Arch, and Alexander Arbuzov and Boris Arbuzov Memorial House to learn a bit about the area. You can watch performances at Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kazan State Theater of Young Spectators, and Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theatre if you're interested in local theater.