Новая музеология: современное осмысление концепта

Abstract

New museology as a system of views was formed in the 1980s. It was the result of comprehending the many and remarkably diverse regional experiences of creating new museums. They arose on the initiative of individual communities and actualized the values that were represented by the elements of the heritage of certain groups of the population. This is how museums focused on social relations were born. Even though the main texts of the ideologists of the new museology were published in the fi rst half of the 1990s, interest in it is not diminishing. Many modern specialists again pay attention to the determination of the place of new museums in the history of museum business, considering them as direct heirs of educational projects of the late 18th century. Moreover, recently the question of the research field of museology as a science has been raised again. Evaluation of the ideas of new museology as a system of views forces us to abandon the understanding of this trend only as one of the stages in the development of museology. Researchers are confi dent that it was the new museology, which interpreted museum practice and formed its own system of values, that formed the basis of that broad interpretation of the research fi eld, which is still considered relevant.