DOI: 10.36871/hon.202203011
Authors
I. Yu. Chibikova
Samara State Institute of Culture, Samara, 443010, Russian Federation
Abstract
The article is devoted to the culturological analysis of the initial stage of museum development in Samara region and, in particular, the identification of specific features of the church art collection formation in the Samara Public Museum. This museum was the first in the Middle Volga region and was the only large central museum of the province. In the article, the author studies the main stages in the development of the public museum and the organization of its stock activities, explores the ways to replenish the stock collections, as well as the sources of new exhibits and designs of the exposition. Having studied a number of historiographical sources, the author draws a conclusion about traditional approaches and methods of creating museum collections at the initial stage, typical for many Russian regions in the late XIXth – early XXth centuries, at the same time revealing the peculiarities of building a collection of Old Russian and church art in Samara. Along with other items of church heritage (sculptures, old printed and handwritten books, articles of arts and crafts), icon painting originally occupied one of the central places in the exposition area of the Samara Public Museum, being for the visitors, on the one hand, a window into the museum space itself, and on the other, a translation of complex and deep concepts of spiritual reality through a specific symbolic artistic language of art.
Keywords
collection, church art, icon painting, museum work, Samara Public Museum
