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History of the Museum

1. The Main Steps of the Museum Activity
  • documents
  • chronicle
  • 2.History of the scientific research
  • personalities
  • memoirs
  • restoration
  • 3.History of the educational activity

    Scientific Research
  • conferences and seminars
  • participation in the exhibitions
  • scientific works, articles
  • editions
  • restoration
  • expeditions:
  • -- archaeological
    -- collecting monuments of culture and history

    The educational activity
  • celebrations
  • excursion
  • participation in festivals, competitions, exhibitions
  • Rus Eng

    History of the Educational Activity (page 3)


    Meeting of schoolchildren with toy-makers. 1980. Nevertheless, since the mid-1970s, the Museum paid special attention to the work with schoolchildren and students. In 1975, the perspective program of the aesthetic education for the pupils from the 1st to the 10th form was worked out. It was aimed at bringing up an individual aesthetic feeling and development of creative activity. The program was carried out in co-operation with teachers of the local schools.

    Festival of children’s art in the Museum. 1984. In the middle: Bukhonov N.M. – teacher of the Art Studio in the Pioneers’ Palace. Alongside with the traditional forms, like thematic excursions, cycles of lectures, circles, clubs the Museum began to organize exhibitions of children’s works, classes of decorative art, thematic programs. By the middle of the 1980s, certain educational system for each age group had been formed.

    Senior research worker T.N. Timofeyeva giving a class of  folk art. 1985. Since the 1980s, the educational practice included programs with craftsmen; meetings dedicated to the Museum collections, local history and culture and different kinds of the Museum activity. The diverse events helped to illustrate the link between contemporary art and cultural heritage and to demonstrate the artistic and historic value of the ancient monuments.

    Scientific Conference on Education. 1985. Head of the Scientific Propaganda Department Pavlovskaya delivering a report.  In 1985, the results were reported at the first Conference exclusively dedicated to the Museum educational activity. The reports gave serious analysis of that period, reflected peculiarities of the excursions for different categories of visitors, discussed the guides training system, presented different aspects of the Museum aesthetic education. The various forms of work, the staff qualification, stable system of professional training, that proved durable and effective, helped to adapt to the perestroika conditions when the number of visitors dropped. For all the difficulties the Museum saved the educational service and began to develop new forms involving local visitors.


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