Ukrainian Museums Research Articles

MODERN TRENDS IN THE FORMATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL MUSEUMS

The article discusses the historical background and progressive processes of universalization and expansion of exclusively museum functions and the transformation of museums into a hub, similar to a transport hub that combines objects of different functions.
 According to the World Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55 thousand museums in the world. The leaders among them are art museums – the Louvre (Paris, France), the Metropolitan (New York, USA) and the British Museum (London, UK).
 Ukrainian museums also have great cultural potential and are among the top ten countries in Europe in terms of the number of works of art available. At the same time, more than 90% of the cultural and creative artistic component of Ukraine is without the possibility of use and exposure.
 It has been revealed that a modern museum should strive for development, not be afraid to go beyond the existing museum space, and also expand its functional scope through the use of a modern architectural and planning organization with flexible structures.
 Consistently considering the features of the functioning of museums in different historical periods, it was revealed that the dependence of strategies for relating to the past has changed the perception of a museum object and museum structure. Accordingly, the typology of museum spaces was made or destroyed.
 So, it is determined that starting from the 70s of the XX century. there was a rethinking of the approaches to the formation of the space of museums, which contributed to the solution of social and communication problems and the transformation of the role of museums in society.
 The given examples from domestic and foreign experience in designing, building, operating museums refer to the continuous process of architectural creativity.

Save the Ukrainian People First: They Carry their Culture in their Hearts

Save the Ukrainian People First: They Carry their Culture in their Hearts

Transformation of the concept "museum" in the Ukrainian space

After the conference in Japan in 2019, museum communities of different countries discussed the transformation of the concept of "museum" and the need to change the existing definition. The article attempts to outline how the idea of "museum" was transformed among Ukrainian museum workers from the end of the 19th century till now. At this time, active museum life unfolded on Ukrainian lands, and activists sought to outline the museum's mission. The idea of this concept was modified given the change in the political situation. Special requirements for the museum as a tool of propaganda existed within the framework of the Soviet socio-political system. After Ukraine declared independence, theorists and practitioners of the museum business primarily evaluated the museum as an institution of social memory, indicating this direction's importance for Ukrainian civil society. As an official representative of the Ukrainian museum community, the Presidium of the ICOM of Ukraine draws attention to the need to preserve the existing concept's critical characteristic against the current debate's background. At the same time, ICOM Ukraine warned that purely formal compliance with functional criteria does not prevent the transformation of museums into a tool of propaganda. Russia's cynical war against Ukraine in 2022 demonstrates that this is what must avoid at all costs.

LVIV STATE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM DURING THE SOVIET OCCUPATION (1939–1941)

Based on the analysis of previous research and archival sources, the position of key Ukrainian museum institutions in Lviv on the eve of the occupation of Western Ukraine by the Soviet Union in September 1939, is analyzed. In the region, there were many museum institutions, which preserved and popularized the historical and cultural heritage of the peoples who have inhabited the territory of Halychyna. It was investigated that among the Ukrainian museums the most powerful were the National Museum in Lviv which had been founded in 1905 by the initiative of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky and the Museum of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv (NTSh Museum). For more than three decades, both institutions have replenished their repositories with respectable ethnographic collections and artifacts. A drastic change in the situation after September 17, 1939, is demonstrated. Soviet occupation authorities conducted a detailed audit of all museums in Lviv and carried out their large-scale reorganization, in particular, of the entire ethnographic collections of the NTSh Museum in Lviv, the Dzieduszycki Museum, the City Ethnographic and Arts and Crafts Museums, and the Lubomyrski Museum. The Lviv State Ethnographic Museum was established based on their ethnographic collections. From now on, all museum institutions in Halychyna had to serve the ideological needs of the totalitarian machine of Soviet propaganda. Due to the analysis of archival material from the State Archives of Lviv Region (DALO), the main directions of the Ethnographic Museum's activity and its gradual ideologizing, which manifested itself in the priority of Bolshevik propaganda, are analyzed. For instance, exhibitions, lectures, and exposition ensembles forming, organized by the Museum during the end of 1939 and the first half of 1941 strictly corresponded to the so-called «Marxist-Leninist» ideology and a «class» approach. All his public activities were controlled by the relevant party-ideological institutions and party officials. After the Nazi occupation of 1941–1944, the Lviv State Ethnographic Museum returned to the Soviet Bolshevik propaganda reality. Thus, it was stated that the events of the autumn of 1939, related to the occupation of Western Ukraine by the Soviet Union and the implementation of Bolshevism, radically changed the museum landscape of Lviv. Most of the museum collections were disbanded by the new Soviet government and new museums were created on their basis – the main task of which from now on was to promote the so-called «Marxist-Leninist» approach. Keywords museum, occupation, propaganda, Lviv State Ethnographic Museum

FORMATION OF THE CREATIVE METHOD OF ARTIST IVAN MYASOEDOV

The article deals with the evolution of the creative approach of artist Ivan Myasoedov, one of the brightest representatives of arts of the early twentieth century in Ukraine. It is investigated what conceptual, stylistic, and technological influences he experienced in the fields of painting, graphics, photography, and architecture. It was found out which of the key figures in the art world were Myasoedov's role models and teachers and also whom he himself influenced as a mentor. The coloristic techniques used by the artist in his works were analyzed. Based on the field survey of the artist's house, it was established technological requirements he put into the design of the space of his studio. This research was conducted during 2020–2022 years. The work relies on the analysis of Myasoedov's works in the collections of Ukrainian museums (Poltava, Berdiansk, Kyiv, Dnipro, and Odesa). Scientific publications dedicated to the artist and his environment were studied. The materials of private archives (photos and text documents) were processed. Ivan Myasoedov's approach to drawing and coloristic underwent a noticeable evolutionary path from the beginning of his studies at the academy in 1907 to his internship in Munich in 1911. The study at the academy resulted in Ivan Myasoedov's diploma work "The Campaign of the Argonauts", which he performed in several stages by creating various options from sketches to large-format. In 1911, he was acquainted with the works of the famous German artist Franz von Stuck, a representative of the Munich Secession. Ivan repeatedly cited the painting and composition techniques of Stuck in his photographs. For Ivan Myasoedov, photography was an independent form of art. A significant part of Myasoedov's photographs was lost during a fire in 1943. Some prints on photographic paper was preserved at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Studies of sketches and preserved works make it possible to reconstruct the color gamut of lost paintings with high probability, using their monochrome photo reproductions as a basis.

Музейні уроки – альтернативна форма навчання природничих дисциплін базової середньої освіти

The article is devoted to the issue of the museum lessons as an alternative form of teaching Natural Sciences for students in basic secondary school. It proposes the detailed analysis of the concept «natural sciences museum lessons» and explores educational activities provided by the Ukrainian museums to schoolchildren. The author of the article emphasizes the importance of the museum educational activities for both, students and teachers: while for students museum lessons are the chance to improve their knowledge, skills and abilities, for teachers, they are the opening to explain subject material in an accessible way and meet the basic curriculum. Most museums in Ukraine and abroad offer standard tours, museum lessons, lectures and educational workshops. Analysis of those activities showed that natural museums have an extremely important role in the education process of children. Natural history museums clearly realize the importance of their educational role by setting the programs for schools. They provide the interdisciplinary approach in teaching and offer natural sciences lessons to students of all educational levels. Educational activities offered by natural history museums are usually complementary to school natural sciences curriculum, which include several school subjects – biology, geography, physics, chemistry, and astronomy. It is emphasized that apart from the educational content, the museums offer a very wide choice of possibilities and new teaching methods, which require students’ active participation. The educational activities of the museums are included into the curricula of basic secondary education and provide information and communication technologies for the organization of information and educational environment of the museum. The study describes and characterizes the activity of Lviv museums, which offer museum lessons their compatibility with the core curriculum of basic secondary education. Keywords: museum lesson, museum education, natural history museum, basic secondary education, educational program, museum innovations.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF POPULAR CULTURE

Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro focuses on the history of the steppe Dnieper region and is one of the oldest Ukrainian museum institutions founded in 1849. The restriction of activities in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 quarantine contributed to the intensification of online museum activities. The museum staff adapted the museum events to the new digital format in a timely and high-quality manner. The following event were successfully conducted: “Online lectures”, “Museum Night”, “Children’s Day in the museum”, etc. The author states that the Online Museum project has significantly influenced the traditional formats of museum activities, including fundraising, exhibitions, outreach activities, etc. Thus, in view of digitalization, there is a need to study the transformation of museum activities in general and Dmytro Yavornytsky National Historical Museum of Dnipro in particular. Following the NHMD case, the author concludes about the need for creating new educational content for children, actualizing the role of exhibits, spreading public opinion about the option of outside museum projects, finding a balance between what the museum gives and what the museum does to implement the financial plan.

Egyptian mummies in Ukrainian museums: an Overview

Egyptian mummies in Ukrainian museums: an Overview

MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY IN THE RESEARCH OF NATIVE SCIENTISTS

The article presents publications of the late 19th – early20th centuries, in which museum materials of Ukrainian originare studied and published. This refers to museum catalogs,albums and reports. The purpose of this article is to trace thedynamics of the use of these publications in scientific researchof colleagues during the late 19th – early 21th centuries. Theproposed analysis proved the fact that museographicpublications have acted an important role in scientificresearch for a long time, starting from the moment they werepublished until the present time. It was also found that as ahistorical source, museography was emphasized in threedirections: the basis for conclusions about historical facts; thefoundation for the protection of objects of history and museumresearch; and for museum attribution work. The context of theuse of museum publications has changed. In the 19th century,they were used to show the development of museums in thesouth of the Russian Empire. In the Soviet period, "prerevolutionary" museum publications were perceived as tracesof "bourgeois science." Modern researchers consider museumcatalogs, albums, reports of the late 19th – early 20th centuries as one of the aspects of themanifestation of the process of national revival in Ukraine at the frontier of the century. It was alsonoted that at the end of the 19th and throughout the 20th century, publications of archaeologicalcollections were more popular, especially materials found in the south of Ukraine. In the 21st century,the attention of researchers was attracted by materials from the period of the Cossacks. In general,there was a stable interest in Ukrainian museum publications of the late 19th – early 20th centuries.

Public dialogue as a way to create an inclusive touristic space (on the example of “K. I. Shulzhenko museum” MIC)

The relevance of the article. An important problem of modern Ukrainian society is small number of inclusive spaces, what complicates the process of socialization of young people with disabilities. Prevailing forms of mentality in Ukraine (charitable, administrative, magical) do not provide an opportunity to adequately solve this problem. Only a humanistic, dialogue­based model of mentality will contribute to the creation of a true inclusive in the society.
 The purpose of the article is to develop proposals for the formation of a local tourism inclusive space on the example of “Klavdiia Shulzhenko Museum”.
 The methodology. The work is a practice research based on the principles of the philosophy of dialogue, devoted to the search for practical ways to implement a humanistic model of social development in a particular enterprise of tourist infrastructure. The use of general scientific (analysis, synthesis, genera­lization) and special methods (modeling) is deter­mined by the purpose and objectives of the study.
 The results. Based on the analysis of successful examples of the formation of inclusive space in Ukrainian museums, a step­by­step plan for the transformation of space in the direction of inclusion for the “Klavdiia Shulzhenko Museum”. For the first stage, it is important to create a space for dialogue with the target audience and establish cooperation in the working group. For the second — cooperation for creating the excursions. The next stage is the transformation of infrastructure.
 The practical significance. The article is a theoretical base for practical museum projects, in which young people with disabilities are actively involved in society, visitors without disabilities will understand that young people with disabilities have high potential and are able to actively participate in society; creates a positive social discourse of acceptance, favorable for the socialization of young people with disabilities.
 Conclusion. Since the problem of transformation of society in the direction of inclusion is not belongs exclusively for Kharkiv, it is has meaning to use successful world and Ukrainian cases. Since infrastructural problems are the result of existing mental attitudes, they can be solved through changes in mentality (establishing public dialogue), rather than government directives. For Kharkiv, the Municipal Institution of Culture “K. I. Shulzhenko Museum” is a place with significant social and cultural potential. Given the creation of an inclusive space in the museum, it can become one of the outposts of socialization of young people with disabilities, but also — to promote the formation of a positive image of people with disabilities in society. The solution of this task can take the form of cooperation with NGOs and further joint project activities.

Review : New research in the field of museum Egyptology. Tarasenko M.O. In searching of antiquities from khedyv's present. Ancient Egypt monuments of XXI dynasty in Ukrainian museums. Kyiv: IS NANU, 2019. 316 p.

Review : New research in the field of museum Egyptology. Tarasenko M.O. In searching of antiquities from khedyv's present. Ancient Egypt monuments of XXI dynasty in Ukrainian museums. Kyiv: IS NANU, 2019. 316 p.

Virtual Museum Space as the Innovative Tool for the Student Research Practice

The article presents the results of theoretical substantiation and practical ap-probation of modern possibilities for applying the visual teaching method. The EU countries’ educational experience on modern ways of working with museum expositions to form economic thinking is studied. The content of the two-stage pedagogical experiment is characterized. At the first stage, the possibilities of using educational excursions through museums and histori-cally significant territories of cities as a studying method are researched. The authors’ pedagogical product is presented - regional-themed tours on eco-nomics’ history. Using Ukrainian museums’ online resources (virtual tours, virtual exhibitions) has been developed and tested at the second stage. The thematic catalog of Ukrainian museums’ online resources for broad research practices has been created. The presented innovative tool has shown its ef-fectiveness in improving the educational process quality, forming infor-mation and media literacy, and applying inclusive education. This pedagogi-cal tool is essential in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and for stu-dents with disabilities.

COMMUNICATIVE SPACE OF MODERN MUSEUMS DURING THE PANDEMIC

The purpose of the article is to explore the communicative space of modern museums in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, to outline the main vectors of its development. The research methodology is based on the general scientific principle of objectivity, structural and functional, analytical methods are used during the analysis of the communicative space of museums in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking into account the current state of museums in Ukraine, the main theoretical achievements of the issue are systematized and generalized; it is shown that the topic of the research at the present stage has not yet been comprehensively reflected in the domestic scientific literature. The novelty of the article is to determine the main vectors of the development of the communicative space of foreign and domestic museums during the COVID-19 pandemic, to study the most successful projects of Ukrainian museums in the context of the transformation of the communicative space. Conclusions. The study shows that today the establishment of a sustained and constructive dialogue with its audience is an important result of the museum activities as one of the communication centers in the cultural space. This article demonstrates that there is a rather significant transformation of the museum environment and the museum communicative space, which is manifested in a combination of traditional and innovative directions, the development of adaptation strategies following the modern conditions. It is claimed that for museums the time of the pandemic is the time of mastering new communication channels, the time of pooling resources. Information technologies adjust and supplement the content of the main functions of museum’s activities. Without digital technologies and digital communication, the museum is no longer able to achieve its full potential as a sociocultural and educational institution. The article shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic the Internet communication between Ukrainian museums and their audience has actually become the only way to interact. To attract a new audience, Ukrainian museums are implementing inclusion practices, rebranding, interdisciplinary and inter-museum projects, applying creative approaches to adapt educational programmes to the online format, and significantly increasing the amount of content for children and adolescents.

In Search of a New Home: From Andrii Yakovliv’s Letters to Lev Okinshevych

The Shevchenko Scientific Society Archives in New York houses the correspondence between Ukrainian jurist Lev Okinshevych and various figures of science, culture, and politics. Among them are letters from the famous lawyer and historian of law Andrii Yakovliv, whose life in the postwar years is mostly unknown. We can partially fill those gaps using the eight letters from Yakovliv to Okinshevych, written in 1947-1949. After leaving his job at the Ukrainian Free University (UVU) in Prague, Andrii Yakovliv moved to the part of Germany occupied by the Western Allies, worked at the Ukrainian Technical and Economic Institute in Regensburg, and maintained ties with UVU, where he received the honorary doctorate in 1947. He later moved to his family in Belgium, gave lectures to Ukrainian students at the Catholic University of Louvain and was actively involved in research. Among other things, at this time, Yakovliv was engaged in arranging papers of Viacheslav Prokopovych and preparing for publication his unfinished book The Seal of Little Russia: Sphragistic Etudes, which was published in 1954 as a separate volume of Memoirs of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. In parallel, the scholar prepared for publication his monograph Ukrainian Code of 1743 “Rights on which the Little Russian people are judged,” its history, sources, and systematic presentation of content, took an active part in preparing the section “Law” for the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies, worked on Memories, or The Tale of the Bygone Years of My Life. Besides sharing the academic interests, Yakovliv and Okinshevych had quite a friendly relationship. In his letters, Yakovlev discussed his scholarly plans, the publication of his research, the work of Ukrainian educational and research institutions in exile, as well as issues related to the work on the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies, and the problems of his family’s relocation to the United States. This correspondence sheds light on the last stage of Yakovlev’s life in Europe, his activities and relations with colleagues during this period. From these letters, we learn many interesting details about the private and academic relations of the scholar with many members of the Ukrainian scholars’ emigration group, about the circumstances of founding and activity of Ukrainian scientific institutions in Western Europe, about the fate of the Ukrainian Museum in Prague. This epistolary heritage is of exceptional value not only for the study of the intellectual biography of Andrii Yakovliv but also for the prosopographical study of the Ukrainian scientific emigration of the 1940s and 1950s.

Specifics of University Museum Cooperation in Ukraine

The article discusses cooperation between university museums in Ukraine, with particular attention to the structure and operation of museum networks at different levels. At the institutional level, network ideology is manifested in the formation of museum complexes within universities. This type of close coordination makes it possible to directly influence the development strategy of universities, expands opportunities for creating innovative museum product, strengthens the position of museums within universities, and helps to draw the residents and guests of the city into the museum space. At the regional level, museum unions, based on the territorial or specialization principle, help to improve the professional skills of museum staff and protect their rights. They are also involved in the organization of community events (exhibitions, contests) and make museums more open and attractive to different categories of visitors. At present, we are witnessing the gradual development of museum associations in Ukraine, at the level of both individual universities (the museum complex of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) and cities or regions (Association of University Museum Workers of Kharkiv). At the same time, Ukraine still needs a country-wide association of university museums, which would help to legitimize and strengthen the university museum community and preserve and facilitate access to museum collections of institutions of higher education. It is also necessary to increase the representation of Ukrainian museums in international organizations, which would make it possible to formulate more clearly the mission of the university museum in modern society. The lack of a clear understanding of the mission of the university museum and the latter’s uncertain position (including legal) in the academic and museum community can lead to the loss of not only museum identity, but also museums themselves and their collections. In Ukraine, we can speak of the first steps towards such self-organization at the institutional and regional levels, as well as attempts to create a national center through formal (association) and informal (conferences) structures. However, so far these attempts have been sporadic.

Museums: Preserving Heritage, Comprehending Past, Forming Identity

Perception of museums as space of co-operation between public and collections is rethought constantly, with primarily taking into account a sociocultural situation. It is reflected on the specifics of the direction of activity and determination of the mission of different museums. Nowadays, scientists interpret the museum space as social space and regard museums as institutes of social memory (historical memory or cultural memory). Communication, interactivity, and participation are considered to be the main components determining the development of the modern museum. The aim of this study is to analyse the strategy of determination of priority directions of the museum activity and the place and role of museums in the processes of memory. Museums accumulate and translate the experience of a certain culture and the way they present this experience; it is a part of the complicated process of formation of the nation identity. Museum professionals often say that an important task now is to choose one and only line among the events and to create a common collective experience that in turn influences the self-identity of an individual. First, every museum must choose the educational strategy and define the priority directions of their activity. The sharpest discussions in Ukraine concern the direction of the national museums. If a museum considers the priority direction of the activity organization of leisure, then the question is whether it can have the status of national. The function of leisure is important but cannot be basic; in fact, the essence of the museum is the function of cognition. A special attention should be paid to the fact that a tendency of “walls without the museum,” that is the museum without traditional collections, now undergoes substantial changes. Such museums afterwards begin to complete their own collection. It is presently impossible to ignore such an important theme as the maintenance of the cultural heritage and digital transformation. Museums actively use multimedia technologies for the maintenance and popularization of the heritage. But a specific feature of the museum as an institution of storage, study, andtranslation of subject forms of culture has not been lost. Museum objects themselves are the basis of adaptive and inculturation possibilities of the museum. In the epoch of globalization, a museum can create optimal terms for the cultural identification. Presently our task is not consideration of certain historic events and their influence on forming the historic memory of the Ukrainian people. It is important to mark that potential of museums as grounds of proceeding in the national memory and Ukrainian identity considerable enough, but not exposed, and not only by regional museums. The study and use of experience of the creation of complex narratives on difficult questions of history in the museums of the world are important enough for Ukrainian museum professionals. Modern museums, while developing projects related to traumatic remembrances, questions of firmness, dialogue, problems of reconciliation in conflict periods of history, run into numerous problems but must not forget that these projects will assist a reflection among the public.

Reconstructing the past: narratives of Soviet occupation in Ukrainian museums

ABSTRACT This article examines narratives of occupation in portrayals of the Soviet past in Ukrainian museums. The paper analyzes the juridical, historical, and ideological usage of the term “Soviet occupation” in the Ukrainian context to illuminate the political and cultural circumstances that favoured the creation of Ukrainian museums of occupation. A separate section is devoted to the narrative of occupation found in the museums of other post-Soviet countries, in order to distinguish Ukrainian peculiarities. The article focuses on the Museum of Soviet Occupation and the Kyiv Occupation Museum to discuss the institutionalization of the occupation narrative within Ukraine, examining the main memory actors, dominant narratives, and visitors’ experiences in the establishment and further development of such institutions. This research reveals the essentially anti-Soviet and anti-Russian pathos of narratives of occupation in Ukrainian museums, emphasizing the ways in which they reproduce the Soviet style of history telling.

THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM SPACE AS A PLATFORM FOR STUDENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

The article presents the results of theoretical justification and practical verification of modern possibilities of using the pictorial method (museum tours) in teaching the subject “The History of Economics and Economic Thought”. The article justifies the evolution of views on the range of sources on historical processes. A modern understanding of “a pictorial turn” in historical research was presented. The virtual museum as an informational resource, multimedia phenomenon, cost-effective model of museum space was considered. The educational experience of the EU countries in using modern methods of working with museum expositions to form economic thinking was studied. The need to turn the traditional paradigm of the museum as a center for preserving historical values into the educational interaction between the tourist student and the objects of the museum’s collection was proved. The article describes the content of the two-stage pedagogical experiment (between 2014 and 2018). The first stage explores the possibility of using educational museum tours and historically significant territories of cities as a method of studying the history of regional economics in the context of seminars. The author’s pedagogical product, that is regional thematic tours on the history of economics, was presented. The second stage develops and verifies the methodology of using online resources of Ukrainian museums (virtual tours, virtual exhibits) to organize the independent work of students in the context of this subject. The thematic catalog of online resources of Ukrainian museums for conducting research activities within this subject was created. The article presents research activities with the exposition of the virtual museum in the framework of the independent work of students. Based on the results obtained from the survey of students from higher education institutions of Ukoоpspilka, it is proved that working in the virtual museum space implies innovative, multidisciplinary, competence-oriented research activities, as well as an effective form of organizing independent work of students.

Unusual faunistic collection from the Scientific funds of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve

Animal bones were discovered in Scientific founds in National Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve. There are 17 pieces. We present here their identification and the description of taphonomic observations. These bones belong to Mammuthus primigenius, Ursus sp. and Cervus sp. They come from various sites from Ukraine. Probably, this collection was formed in the National Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve as a result of the return of materials from Ukrainian museums after the Second World War. Keywords: National Kyiv-Pechersk Reserve, Illinka Cave, Kyrylivska site, returned collections.

THE ROLE OF INNOVATIVE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES IN MUSEUMS ACTIVITIES

Introduction. The source of mechanisms of museums adaptation according to modern economy conditions lies in complete modernization of museum space based on strategic planning, scientific organization of management and implementation of new technological decisions in museum institutions activity. Specifically, the innovative museum technologies in the mix with modern management will guarantee the timely museum reaction on public requirements. A discrepancy in the instrumentation in its turn causes great reducing the level of attractiveness for modern user of museum services. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the study is the analysis of using facilities in innovative management sphere of museum institutions activities and its influence on museum industry development in context of culturally-educational museums activities. In order to solve the problem of research was used traditional complex of general scientific principles (determinism, reflection, unity of opposites) and methods (analysis and synthesis, systematic and structural, interrogation, content-analysis, observation, statistical). Results. This article presents the characteristic of concept “innovative management”. A special innovative management toolbox was found and it can also provide the background for some modernization in Ukrainian museum industry. Research results are confirmed by sociological survey based on theme “What would you like to see as a modern local history museum?”. Conclusions and discussions. Preservation of historical materials, popularization of knowledge, attraction wide circle of visitors – all these are the goals of any museum activity with the support of innovative management technologies. The use of innovative management has its nuances. Before starting work with innovative toolbox implementation, one should think through its strategy, clearly define the goals; identify the target audience; prepare the media content etc.