From actualizing the heritage to reclaiming it: development of a historiographic resource

The article is relevant, since today it is necessary to explore the developing historiographic resource reflecting modern socially significant trend, i.e., the transition from using and actualizing the heritage to reclaiming it. The objective of the study is to analyze major foreign and Russian works, including regional ones (2012-2015) dealing with setting and solving theoretical and practical tasks connected with heritology, and revealing the main prospects and trends of the development of the relevant histo-riographic resource. The author of the article has used the findings (1982-1989) of the famous museologist T. Sola who introduced a new knowledge area, namely, heritology, and coined the term "Mnemosophy" which he described as "Cybernetic philosophy of heritage". The papers dealing with museification of the heritage were presented at the 37 ICOFOM International Symposium "New Trends in Museology" (Paris, 2014). It was underlined that further exploration and introduction of relevant technologies (information and participatory) and methods for actualizing eth-nocultural heritage were envisaged. Talking of global experience, the monography by M.Kaulen was recognized as a comprehensive study reflecting both theoretical and practical aspects of museification of the Russian historical and cultural heritage. The author analyzed the problem of transition towards reclaiming the heritage, and characterized the main directions of museification activities in the museum world. The following subjects were recognized as the most promising ones: the role of reclaiming cultural heritage in socio-cultural environment, and the development of an effective system for translating historical and cultural experience. Relevant trends of reclaiming cultural heritage in accordance with the model of museum world of Siberia developed by O.Shelegina were described in the article. In material sphere, those are museum reserves working extensively with cultural heritage; in intellectual area, it concerns integration of science, culture, and education, as well as the project "Museum of Siberia"; and finally, in the sphere of communication, those are electronic archives of scientific heritage. The article also mentions national and regional thesis works by T.Kuryanova (actualizing cultural heritage of indigenous peoples in the museums of southern Siberia), A.. Diyanova (cultural heritage of Siberian Tatars in the modern museums of western Siberia), L.Kravtsova (actualizing historical and cultural heritage of coal mining in museum practice), and P.Glushkova (actualizing calendar ritualism of the Russians in the Siberian open-air museums). In conclusion, it is underlined that the development of historiographic resource is accompanied by the appearance of works dealing with exploration of cultural heritage in the context of museum world, cybernetic philosophy of heritage, and prioritized museification of ethnocultural heritage. The problem of reclaiming regional heritage has been set only recently and needs to be thoroughly discussed taking into account the experience of Museum and Cultural Heritage scientific-educational center affiliated with Tomsk State University.

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