Международные связи Тобольского губернского музея на рубеже XIX-XX веков

Abstract

The research objective includes identifying specificity of developing international cooperation in scientific, exhibition, educational activity of Tobolsk Province Museum at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Scientific cooperation involved personal contacts, correspondence, exchanging collections and print editions, joint handling of collections. The study focuses on long-term contacts with specialists in the Finno-Ugric culture. Participation in ‘Exposition Universelle’ of 1900 in Paris reinforced the museum status as a research institution. Scientific originality of the paper lies in the fact that relying on a wide range of sources, the authors for the first time analyse different forms of cooperation between the museum employees and foreign researchers. The findings indicate that international contacts of Tobolsk Province Museum were developing against the background of growing international cultural cooperation. It was a mutually beneficial process, in which private initiative played an essential role.