Problems of Ethnographic and Local History Museums in the views of Researchers
In: Trudy Kolʹskogo naučnogo centra RAN. Gumanitarnye issledovanija = Humanitarian studies, Band 11, Heft 1-2020, S. 149-162
One of the important tasks of regional historical and ethnological research is to determine the ethnographic potential of regional and municipal museums. It matters pragmatically —for the development of the tourism industry, and in relation to the generalcultural, educational, scientific development. The purpose of the article is to review the main aspects of understanding problems related to ethnographic museums in domestic science. The problems of museums are studied in institutional and socio-cultural perspectives, including in the context of the processes of socio-cultural identification and commemoration. The main place is given to the thoughts of researchers about the "crisis of museums" and their development trends. The problems of Russian ethnographic museums are defined at the conceptual, institutional, socio-economic, socio-cultural levels.