Elena Nikolaevna Mastenitsa,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia, е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Relevant Problems of the Cultural Heritage Development, Museology, Museum and Exhibition Design in the Pages of Textbooks by Saint Petersburg Museologist
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-2-19
The activities of museums all over the world and in Russia have an important social and cultural significance, play an essential role in preservation and transmission of cultural heritage, in educational process, in organization of leisure. The number of Institutions that train professionals for its implementation is expanding. The purpose of the publication is to reveal the intention and structure of textbooks created by authors’ teams of the Department of Museology and Cultural Heritage of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in the context of the conceptual and theoretical views of the emerging scientific school of St. Petersburg museology. The textbook “Cultural Heritage and Museum in the XXI Century” (2018) is intended for masters studying in the educational programs of the Federal State Educational Standard in the direction 51.04.04 “Museology and protection of cultural and natural heritage sites”. It summarizes and structures extensive material devoted to the formation of ideas about the heritage and the museum, their historical interconnection and interdependence. The focus is on the ongoing transformations of traditional cultural institutions. Special emphasis is placed on modern value-oriented trends in the development of attitudes towards heritage, as well as on the ideological postulate associated with the understanding of cultural heritage as the foundation and the most important mechanism for the functioning of culture. Many materials, including the works of foreign researchers not previously introduced into scientific circulation and not translated into Russian, have scientific novelty. The textbook “Designing Museum Expositions and Exhibitions: History-Theory-Practice” (2020) is addressed for bachelors mastering the educational program of the Federal State Educational Standard in the direction 51.03.04 “Museology and protection of cultural and natural heritage objects”. The presentation of the basics of design is practice-oriented. Their development should contribute to the formation of exhibiting as an area of museum activity, the formation of a new generation of museologists capable of responding to the challenges of the time, thinking creatively and independently solving professional problems.
Publishing: 28/04/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 05/01/2021
How to cite: Mastenitsa E.N. Relevant Problems of the Cultural Heritage Development, Museology, Museum and Exhibition Design in the Pages of Textbooks by Saint Petersburg Museologists // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 2 (16), pp. 223–232. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-2-19.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2021
Keywords: cultural heritage; museum; museology; design; exposure; exhibition; textbook; Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture