THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF RESEARCH OF HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MUSEUM MOVEMENT ON PRIKARPATHIAN REGION IN SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY – 30S OF XX CENTURY

Abstract

On pages of tht article theoretical and methodological problems of the historiography of museums in the Precarpathian region of the second half of the 19th – 30s of the 20th century are researched. All terminological problems is identified. The meaning of the terms «museum work», «museum studies», «museuming» is outlined. The chronological boundaries of the study were determined. They have two levels. The first level is the territory of the Precarpathian region, which for today, almost completely coincides with the administrative borders of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The second level has a global scale – scientific works of scientists all over the world. In the scientific and historical researches of the development of museums in the Precarpathian region of the second half of the ХІХ – 1930’s ХХ century the following historiographical periods can be distinguished: historiography of the second half of the ХІХ – the beginning of the ХХ centurу, scientific studies of the 20-30’s of the ХХ century, Soviet (post-war) historiography, and contemporary Ukrainian historiography. In each of the above periods, there were excellent methodological approaches, ideological attitudes and epistemological capabilities. The main blocks of the source base of the historiography of museuming in the Precarpathian region of the second half of the ХІХ – 30’s of the ХХ century are outlined. It is a wide range of historiographical sources: 203 Chapter «Historical sciences» scientific and educational literature, conference materials, reference books, memoirs, archival sources. The historiography of museums in the Precarpathian region of the second half of the nineteenth – 1930’s. consists of a number of problems: the activities of prominent personalities, private collections, museums of cultural and educational societies, local lore and ethnographic activity. The methodological basis of the study is a set of general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge that are traditionally used in historiographic studies: logical, comparative, retrospective, methods of classification, periodization, scientometry, historical analysis, synthesis, system-structural and problematic approach, historical-chronological situation, etc. It is important to involve the methodological achievements of world historical science. The methodological toolkit of modern Ukrainian science makes it possible to carry out a comprehensive historiographical study of museuming in the Precarpathian region of the second half of the ХІХ – 30’s of the ХХ century. This was not a solved scientific problem at this time.