ETHNO-CULTURAL HERITAGE OF BELARUSIANS IN SIBERIAN MUSEUMS: RESULTS AND PROSPECTS OF ACTUALIZATION
O.N. Shelegina
Institute of History of the SB RAS, Russia, 630090, Novosibirsk, Akad. Nikolaev str., 8
Keywords: ethnocultural heritage of Belarusians, Siberian museums, museum collections, museumification of cultural heritage, intergovernmental scientific and museum projects, actualization of heritage in the era of globalization
Abstract
Studying the ethno-cultural heritage of Belarusians in Siberia is crucial for its consolidation, introduction into scientific and information environment as well as for its judicious use in communications between Siberian and Belarusian museums and conducting the comparative historical and museological studies. Modern forms of actualization of ethno-cultural heritage of Belarusians in Siberia are revealed based on the analysis of museum collections and scientific and museographic publications. Among these forms are joint Russian and Belarusian works on history and ethnography («Belarusians in Siberia: Preservation and Transformation of Ethnic Culture»); creation and exhibition of museum collections that refl ect Belarusian culture in the second settlement area of the Belarusian people (Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk regional museums of local lore); cataloging the collections («Culture of Eastern Slavs in the Collections of Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Omsk State University»); museumification of cultural heritage (project of reconstruction and museumification of Belarusian estate in the Taltsy Museum of Architecture and Ethnography); and publication of memoirs of the descendants of “armoured boyars”, i.e., Belarusians involved in colonization of Siberian territories. Siberian museums preserve everyday objects of the descendants from the Mogilev, Gomel, and Vilna Governorates (the late XIX - early XX century); photographs depicting daily life in rural villages of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940-1950) and cultural and household traditions of Belarusians in Siberia (1960). Creation of an information system “Ethnocultural heritage of Belarusians in Siberia” and an integrated online catalogue of Belarusian collections in Siberian museums, as well as implementation of intergovernmental scientific and museum projects are considered perspective ways of cultural heritage actualization in the era of globalization.
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