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The museum on the path from the “third” to the “fourth place”
Museums today are on the way to a “fourth place”, providing new forms of connections between culture and education, We should note that some museums will take this path bypassing the “third place”, as the educational and informational potential accumulated at the museum will create more prerequisites for them to unite culturalcommunicative and educational functions. At the same time, many museums which already are “third places” are actively mastering forms of work inherent to “fourth places”. The museum as a “fourth place” is becoming a hub which not only distributes its resources through formal, nonformal and informal education, but which also creates new conditions for the successful professional selfrealization of young people.