A Municipal Daily Occurence is in the Context of Activity of Museums

Abstract

Many contemporary museums in Ukraine have a large number of issues related to different aspects of museum activity and approaches to it. In particular, it concerns the dialogue between the museum and the city and how the city is represented in the museum. It does not apply to all the features of museum exposition and material presentation. It refers to a dialogue that is supposed to be between the museum and the region where it is located, how the culture of the region is revealed in the museum, which aspects of culture are given more attention than the emphasis placed on the exposition. In our case, this is a dialogue between the museum and the city in the context of the city's everyday life. The aim of the research is to consider how the situation in this direction develops.On the theoretical level, the principles of museum work, its funds and expositions have been studied quite well. There are more issues when we refer to the problem of interaction between the museum and the city at the level of functioning of museum as part of the urban environment. This topic is less developed and, therefore, requires background study.The issue of studying the urban daily life for Ukrainian humanities became relevant not so long ago, it is subject to museum affairs. Therefore, a single methodology and a universal set of approaches have not been created yet. One of the top issues is that urban life has a rather rapid tempo and pace of development; it is too diverse, which attempts to portray it in the scale of exposure rather problematic. Thematic museums, devoted to specific components of urban life, assist to solve this problem in some way.The visitor, who is not only the recipient of the information provided by the museum, but also a part of the links between the museum and the city, plays an important role in the dialogue between the city and the museum. Moreover, the museum requires looking for ways to maximize the range of opportunities to supply information about urban culture by various means and at different levels. In particular, the attraction of visual means and virtual technologies contributes to this. In addition, the active inclusion of the museum in the visualization of urban life could contribute to the formation of new approaches to the study and museumification of urban culture.Thus, we see that the problems of presentation urban life in the museum and the inclusion of the museum itself in the urban everyday life have theoretical and practical components. These issues require further detailed research.