Kaiumova, M. R. THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN EXPOSITIONS OF STATE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF KARELIAN ASSR (KARELO-FINNISH SSR). Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(2):98–104. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.738


Russian history

THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR IN EXPOSITIONS OF STATE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF KARELIAN ASSR (KARELO-FINNISH SSR)

Kaiumova
M. R. 		National Archive of the Republic of Karelia
Keywords:
museum
exhibit
exposition
thematic expositional plan
the Great Patriotic War
excursion		 Summary: The article investigates the characteristics of the museum representation of the Great Patriotic during the 1940s – the beginning of 1980s. The purpose of the research was to reveal the core factors that influenced on the representational policy of State Local History Museum of Karelian ASSR. The relevance of the research lies in an approach to analysis historical expositions as a special type of visual historical narrative. The sources used are thematic expositional plans. These documents accompanied the process of creating the museum expositions. The structure, textual content and composition of the exhibit were recorded in such plans. The sources provide an opportunity to make conclusions about the purpose of expositions and the main ideas which museum curators intended to express. The collection of exhibits concerned the Great Patriotic War had been accumulated by the end of 1940s and became the basis of all the following exhibitions about the War. The collection was replenished with new exhibits but the basis remained the same. On the contrary a lot of texts included in the expositions and used as auxiliary means were created anew for every following exhibition. Museum curators wrote texts subject to the prevailing trends in the social and political spheres. The research focuses on the changings and transformations of representation of The Great Patriotic War in museum expositions. In conclusion it was investigated that these changings were caused mostly by the new trends and the museum’s desire to meet current agenda than by the accretion of new historical knowledge.



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