20th century: trauma is not a resource, or when the guide falls silent in the museum

Abstract

Over the past 23 years, the Togliatti Museum of Local Lore has developed two projects of intergenerational family communication (value exchange between generations, to restore the intergenerational connection broken in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods). In the first case, adolescents and a family encounter trauma (realistically and indirectly, through a teenager who asks the family and about the family questions (the Family Alphabets project); in the second, preschoolers and families (conventionally, grandmothers and grandchildren: 20th century). This is an integrative course at the intersection of museum pedagogy, psychology, records management, uses the documentary heritage of the territory (rare books and documents of the museum and family archive), the intangible heritage of the family.