The leading role of women in the development of Mykolaiv Museum affairs in the second half of the twentieth centur

Abstract

On the example of one of the oldest Mykolaiv museums – V. V. Vereshchagin Regional Art Museum – the processes of organizational changes and transformational conversions, which have become significant and formed the modern foundations of its work, are analyzed. The purpose of the article is to reveal the role of female researchers in the preservation, accumulation and popularization of the museum collection as a specific monument of the material historical and cultural heritage of Ukraine. The subject of the research was the forms and directions of the regional museum directors work, in the context of substantiating priority tasks and determining the ways of their practical implementation by the team. The existing emphasis contributed to the most comprehensive immersion in the thematic sphere and made it possible to recognize the dedication of colleagues to museum work. It has been established that the complex increase in the exposition was the result of well-thought-out scientific and organizational activities: active exposition and display, excursion work was carried out, new mass media forms of advertising were introduced at that time. The growth of the museum’s collection prompted the concretization of algorithms for research work: attribution research was carried out, information about artists and their creative works was collected. Along with the purposeful and systematic collection of museum significance objects, colleagues carried out significant cultural and educational work. Based on the comparison of statistical data, a continuous increase in the number of visitors to the museum, lectures, exhibitions and events of cultural and public importance has been proved. Unfortunately, this issue has not received due attention in the modern historiographic sphere, both at the national and regional levels. There is a certain lacuna in the national historiography regarding the comprehensive analysis of the gender component as an important factor in ensuring the formation and development of all forms of museum work in Ukraine. The materials presented in the article, using the example of only one museum, prove the prospects of the chosen topic and the possibility of distinguishing it as a direction of scientific research.