SOCIAL ASPECT OF MUSEUM-EDUCATIONAL INTERACTION

The review article describes the social aspect of museum-educational interaction. It turns out that a museum is a unique place where an essential social model of ‘lifelong learning’ can be successfully implemented. It has been found that since the modern understanding of education as a process throughout life is associated with a person’s continuous personal development; the introduction of this concept in the museum space of culture is an obvious and natural phenomenon. In the museum, through studying and learning experience, the adaptation of the individual to the social and natural environment occurs using knowledge of past and present human existence. It has been found that museum pedagogy, as well as the learning process itself, should be considered in the context of its purpose, to apply its inherent methods, tools, technologies to all age groups, differing in education, social status, motivational interests, and more. It is substantiated that the use of the potential of museum institutions is expedient in the conditions of inclusion. The authors prove that it is necessary to start implementing inclusion in the museum with special training of employees, which provides for the formation of values, sustainable and positive motivation to interact with people with disabilities, inclusive competence to interact with people with different communicative, intellectual, physical, sensory opportunities and persons accompanying them (assistants, parents, sign language interpreters, etc.). Such training can be provided by inclusive education support centers, inclusive resource centers, advanced training centers, specialists working in inclusive education, etc. Excursion as a form of guided museum visit in an inclusive museum corresponds to the principle of accessibility, which involves not only providing verbal information but also involving all other senses of the visitor: tactile in combination with auditory, providing the ability to feel the vibration of the object, texture, material, etc.