Museum and the Historical Science

This article is a review of the collection of academic articles “Role of Museums in the Information Support for Historical Science” (Moscow, Aterna, 2015), compiled within the framework of the grand publishing project-series “Museums - Libraries - Archives in the Information Support for Historical Science”. This project has the following aims: consideration of the role of the major depositaries of social collective memory in the preservation and support for historical science with sources; definition of their position in the information structure of science; analysis of their collections and stocks, as information resources, including the methods of information retrieving from the sources; examination of the communication between the scientific community and the community of custodians of the historic information - museum curators, librarians and archivists. Within the framework of the project, on the basis of interdisciplinary approach, it is planned to conduct a comparative analysis of the depositaries of historical sources, which creates new opportunities for their usage in historical science. This project unites academic community, scholars, theorists and practitioners, museum curators, librarians and archivists in their efforts to solve the problems of contemporary source studies and to expand the information resources for historical science. The reviewed collection of academic articles presents a wide range of new approaches to the problem of the role and significance of museums in the information support for historical science, representation of their information potential, as well as methods of museum source studies.

museum, historical science, historical source, historical and cultural heritage, information structure of science, information resource

1. Skripkina L.I. Ot sostavitelya [From Editor], Trudy GIM [Proceedings of State Historical Museum]. Moscow, 1999, issue 104 (Muzei v sovremennom mire: traditsionalizm i novatorstvo [Museum in the Modern World: Traditionalism and innovation]), pp. 3—6.

2. Vorontsova E.A., Borodkin L.I., Yanovskii A.D. (eds.) Rol’ muzeev v informatsionnom obespechenii istoricheskoi nauki [Role of Museums in the Information Support for Historical Science]. Moscow, Eterna Publ., 2015, 752 p.