Journal “ICOM News” as the source for studying of the museum cultural and educational activities
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-7-169-184
Abstract
Periodical press as a historical source is actively used by researchers in various fields. Professional periodicals can be a key source of research. This article shows that the professional journal “ICOM News” can be considered a quality historical source for studying the development of cultural and educational activities of museums.
The purpose of the article is to determine the main formats of work with visitors in museums in the 1940s – 1980s, identifying the stages and reasons for the modernization of these work formats with the museum audience based on the materials of “ICOM News”.
The publications in this journal have a global geographical outreach and cover a specialized variety of museums, elucidating both the inner working of a museum as a historical and cultural unit and its evolving place within the broader societal mozaic. The publications in the journal were subjected to textual analysis based on the study of special texts as carriers of professional knowledge. In our case, these are articles devoted to various ways of interacting with the museum audience. Having studied the available data array, 367 articles were identified on the topic of interest to us, amounting to 4.2 % of the total number of all publications in this journal. To sum up, we argue that the professional museum journal “ICOM News” is the full-fledged source for the study of museums globally and for the invaluable regional insights into cultural and educational activities of national museums. It goes without saying that this source works best in combination with other sources, including archival and museographic materials.
About the Authors
O. S. Semenova
National Research Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga S. Semenova
634050
bld. 36, Lenin Av.
Tomsk
I. A. Sizova
HSE University in Saint Petersburg
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina A. Sizova, Cand. of Sci. (History)
192171
bld. 3, Kantemirovskaya St.
Saint Petersburg
O. S. Khruleva
National Research Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Oksana S. Khruleva, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor
634050
bld. 36, Lenin Av.
Tomsk
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Semenova O.S., Sizova I.A., Khruleva O.S. Journal “ICOM News” as the source for studying of the museum cultural and educational activities. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2022;(7 (2)):169-184. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2022-7-169-184
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