Becoming a museum «The history and material culture of the peoples Central Asia» Tuvan State University and his prospects

At the beginning of the XXI century in the Republic of Tuva was founded a museum of higher education - it is "The museum of the history and material culture of the peoples of Central Asia." It reflects the results of scientific-search work of teachers and students of the Tuvan State University. Its main mission is to preserve historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of Tuva and to perform a significant role in the implementation of educational and scientific process. Museum is a great search's results of the Laboratory of Archaeology, Ethnography and the historical study of local lore. There was worked out the concept of integrated development of "The museum of the history and material culture of the peoples of Central Asia." The museum has formed the main fund and the fund of scientific and auxiliary materials. This archaeological items, including sites from the Paleolithic to the late Middle Ages, numismatics, ethnography, arts, edged weapons, from the Scythian period and until the middle of the XX century, paintings, collections of rare books and photos. The sources of replenishment are gifts from the Museum of Tuva, individuals and entities; chance finds, making duplicates, copies and layouts of archaeological and ethnographic materials. The main methods of replenishment of archaeological, historical and ethnographic materials are of the expedition. Department of General History and the Laboratory are reviving the tradition of the complex historical and ethnographic expeditions, which took place in Tuva from 1950 until 1980. Annually in "The Museum of the history and Material Culture of the peoples of Central Asia", students of historical faculty have a museum practice, participate in acquisition of the museum funds and take part in the study of museum material and in promotion of museum collections. The museum collaborates with research institutes, universities and museums of Tuva and Russia. With the support of the university material-technical base of the museum is improving. It is became a tradition on September 1, the Day of Knowledge, to conduct excursions for freshmen of all faculties. Tour services are provided by employees of the museum and by students from a number of volunteers, who enters to the Council of the Museum. The museum has a great perspective: the search work on the acquisition of funds, creation of new expositions of the Tuvans in Mongolia, the city of Kyzyl, further collaboration with other universities and research organizations, conducting research with foreign research organizations, development of new educational programs for children and students about the traditional culture of the peoples of Tuva. Successfully realized the cultural and educational activities, such as guided tours, lectures, meetings, quizzes and contests. "The museum of History and Material Culture of the peoples of Central Asia" has branches in other departments: they are the Museum of Literature writers of the peoples of Siberia, the Museum of Faculty of Agriculture, Sports Hall of Fame Museum. There are such problems facing the Museum of the University as primarily a lack of exhibition space and the lack of storage space for exhibits. The museum must enter a full-time unit of the researcher to record and store assets.

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