Fyodor Shmit’s “Social Museum”: On the Theorization of the Form and Purposes of Museums in Early Soviet Russia
Fyodor Shmit’s “Social Museum”: On the Theorization of the Form and Purposes of Museums in Early Soviet Russia
Author(s): Vitaly G. AnanievSubject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, History of Communism, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: museum; museology; museum studies; Soviet history; Fyodor Shmit; social museum;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the project known as «the Social museum» developed by the prominent Russian academician F.I. Shmit. Through examination of an unpublished manuscript of this project from the archive fund of F.I. Shmit we can give a specific example of new ideas regarding the forms and purposes of museums. These ideas developed in a new culture, and connected the museum to other institutions of memory such as archives and libraries.
Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
- Issue Year: 6/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 33-41
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
