Structuring of Museum Space as a Tool for Cooperation Between Museum and Audience

Student: Maximchikova Elina

Educational Programme: Applied Cultural Studies (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In the twenty-first century changes begin to occur in the field of memorial culture associated with the functioning of totalitarian regimes and anthropological disasters of the twentieth century – world wars, concentration camps, state terror, genocide. The present work offers a language to understand the "concentration" of the past, as well as on the basis of this study reveals how can be organized the space of the exhibition, in accordance with this implicit dictionary. It also refers to the influence of functionally structured spaces of the Museum experience for visitors. The result was the concept of the exhibition based on the conceptual dictionary of the history of the Gulag, but also on the characteristics of the "architecture of memory".

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