Vorontsova E.A. World literary museums in the mirror encyclopedia of Literary museums of Russia: the conceptual basis of the project

Abstract: The author of this article is the main concept-developer and author-composer of the glossary encyclopaedia “Literature museums of Russia”. As such the author offers to discuss his vision of museums and of the museum world, elaborated through the research conducted on this subject for the realisation of the named encyclopaedia, and to be considered by professional societies of museum curators and museologists, historians, culturologists, and other specialists in the humanities. Working on the encyclopedia was seen by the author as an opportunity to take a different look at what is considered today to be the true understanding of museums, to verify this knowledge, and to confirm or correct its validity. The research was conducted through an interdisciplinary approach, with the application of the results from a study of the information support problems in historical sciences. The author notes that the collection of established perceptions regarding museums had undergone a transformation. The outlook on museums through the cut-profile group in this study proved to be productive for the acquisition of new knowledge, including at the beginning of the research and on already developed stages of preparing the encyclopedia. A significant conclusion derived from this study is that because of insufficient development thinking many phenomena and events of the literary process and in the history of literature have not been clearly reflected in museums representations (that is, they have not been adapted into museum presentation).

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