Abstract

The classification of museums is one of the most problematic issues of museology. Researchers offer a variety of classification principles and approaches as the number and distinctiveness of museums around the world increases - from location and forms of funding to profile and number of visitors served. The purpose of this article is to highlight the activities of Petrograd museums in the field of museum construction in the 1920s, searches for new forms of work and technologies for their time, as well as the reasons for the lack of demand for these technologies as the museum network develops and emerges in the country. It was during this period that the ideas of an educational museum, a museum for adults, were realized, which did not set itself the task of broadcasting a certain amount of knowledge and promoting the formation of the need for self-education.

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