Museum Collection as a Source of Expert Research

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to highlight the issues of museum collections as a database of expertise, which today is considered a separate direction of scientific and applied research. The affinity between the expertise and attribution of cultural values have been specified taking into account the tasks and methods they use during scientific research work. Research methods. To achieve the research goal, analytical, historical, epistemological, and axiological method, the method of theoretical generalisation have been used in order to specify the problem of using museum collections as a database for the examination of cultural values. Scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the theoretical understanding of the possibility to use museum collections as a database for expert examinations in order to specify and deepen the knowledge about cultural values. This approach is an attempt to go beyond traditional art studies and make emphasis on the objective data, draw more accurate conclusions. Moreover, the use of museum collections may encourage a researcher to be more attentive to details and to deepen their knowledge. Conclusions. In order to understand the significance of the database of expert research in the system of protection and popularisation of cultural values, the existing basic concepts have been systematised. The commonality and interdependence have been established between the expertise and attribution, which is a well-founded opinion of a specialist with many years of experience and unique knowledge. The supremacy of museums in the field of expertise has a number of advantages, since each item, from the point of view of a museologist, has its own, strictly defined place in the system of cultural values.
 Key words: museum, museum collection, museum item, sources, cultural values, art expert examination, state examination of cultural values.