Журнал “ICOM News” – источник для изучения культурно-образовательной деятельности музея

Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология». 2022. № 7-2. С. 169–184.

Семенова О. С., Sizova I., Хрулева О. С.

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

Keywords: исторический источник, historical source, Периодическая печать, museum visitors, forms of interaction, формы взаимодействия, periodicals, “ICOM News”, посетители музея, “ICOM News”