Open AccessCentral Geographical Museum: To the 150th anniversary of V.P. Semenov-Tian-Shansky
Author(s) -
Marina Shleeva,
V. M. Savenkova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/579/1/012172
Subject(s) - tian , exposition (narrative) , museum informatics , saint petersburg , cultural heritage , national museum , history , anthropology , archaeology , sociology , museology , art , literature , russian federation , ancient history , regional science
The paper is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the outstanding Russian scientist V.P. Semenov-Tian-Shansky and the 100th anniversary of the Central Geographical Museum that he organized in Leningrad and that existed from 1919 to 1941. The authors, basing on analysis of publications concerned both with the museum itself and those people who were involved in its arrangement, made an attempt to outline historical and cultural conditions that hastened the emergence of the museum, to reveal its specificity as compared with similar museums, and to briefly describe its founders. The paper deals with such issues as the environment which gave birth to the idea of a “museum in nature”; Semenov-Tian-Shansky’s activities preceding his museum practice; the influence of V.I. Lamansky’s ideas on principles of the museum building; earlier museums of similar character; the role of the Russian Geographical Society and its members in the establishment of the museum; the beginning of the museum’s exposition activity. Despite the fact that this absolutely original, unparalleled project of the geographical park-museum was not realized in full it belongs to national cultural heritage and its practical experience remains demanded and relevant.