Shulepova, E. A. Interaction between the Museum and Society as a Socio-Cultural Issue

Abstract: The article empathizes that historically we have various forms of museum in Russia (private, institutional and state museums). The latter has been the most universal form but this form is not mobile enough. In practice, it is important to combine museum’s extra system functions allowing to work with different social classes with system functions which have been historically related to organization of the museum’s interior life. Such an approach has already brought us to the fact that today the leading Russian museums do not seem to be some kind of reservation or cultural necropolis. Quite on the contrary, they are part of local historical and cultural environment.

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