Institutional conditions for falsification of history in museum institutions

The article discusses the meaning of "falsification" prevailing in various spheres of human activity (philosophy, law theory and practice, history), describes the brief history of the concept of existence of "falsification of history", the practice of resistance to detection of signs of history falsification in relation to the museum activities, which include: the availability of conscious intent (the subject of fraud should be aware of their actions), the presence in the actions of the subject of the pragmatic component (the subject of fraud makes meaningful action to extract clear benefits for themselves), targeted actions of the subject of fraud (such a person always acts targetedly and vaguely about the projected effects of their actions, expressed as a rule to bring the consciousness of the person exposed to the desired state of falsifiers, pecuniary interest in the form of theft of property or savings due to the deliberate reduction of the quality of produced representations by substitution and distortion), ill-treatment of primary empirical data (it can be implemented in the following varieties (together or separately): direct replacement of all types of primary data, a certainly incomplete picture of the available source data, the attribution of meaning and significance unusual for a specific group of data, building relationships between groups of data that do not exist in reality). The hypothesis being tested before the integration of the museum in the business interests of influential actors of its environment as an essential condition for the practice of falsification of history, on the historical and archival materials of the 1920s-1930s describes the possible tendencies of practices to falsify history in Soviet museums (in particular, Tomsk Regional Museum), fixed coincidence constraints intensify the museum to create misconceptions about the history and attention to the problems of resource support of its activities. Specific settings are identified in the management of the museum, which entail practices distorting history: control of acquisition and assertion of the right of the party body to determine the value of certain museum objects; the formation of regulations on subjects museum studies almost at the level of their final conclusions, and the expression of provisions on the structure of the exposition. The conditions that start the system of history falsification in museums are: assimilation of museums in the business interests of some external actors, the monopolization of financing the museum by these entities, the establishment of the actors' control over major products of the museum, especially acquisition and study of funds.

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