How to read and understand the museum. The philosophy of the museum

What is a museum is well known to everyone, but few are aware of its origin, development and, especially, public influence. Such topics are usually studied by experts and make up the subject of individual science - museology. However, popularity, diversity, constant growth in the number of museums require a deeper penetration into these issues, including from the audience, without cooperation with which a modern museum is impossible. This is the principle of new museology. To contribute to the understanding of the nature of the museum, its philosophy, in other words, those social ideas and relationships that formed and transformed it - the task of this book.
Its author Z. A. Bona - a museum worker and museologist, says in six thematic essays about Bright episodes associated with famous museums: Louvre, British Museum, Museum of Metropolitan, Hermitage, Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin and others, hoping to look into the future of the museum as the most important institution of memory.
The publication contains a rich illustrative material representing the image of the museum in world fine art and photography