Strategic Session “The Role of Museums in the Development and Promotion of the Arctic Regions”

In the context of the globalization processes of modern Russia, it is still important to strengthen the regional component. Museums that master innovative forms and types of core activities become active subjects of regional cultural policy, take an active part in diagnosing the tourism potential of the territories, develop an attractive tourism product/brand of a particular region, communicate regional identity, successfully work in the field of socio-cultural design and educational activities. The role of museums in shaping and transmitting a positive image of the Arctic and the North of Russia, as well as in solving the problems of creating educational tourist routes on the topics of ethnography, art crafts, cultural and historical values is significant.

In the focus of the discussion::

• Museums of the Arctic in the private cultural process
• Modern reading of the Arctic regions museums collections
• Collaborations between the cultural institutions of the Arctic and museums in other regions of Russia
• Innovative solutions for the promotion of Arctic museums: goals and objectives

Moderator:

Natalia KAIKOVA - Deputy Director, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum (Moscow)

Speakers:

Vasily ABRAMOVSKY, Head, Research Department, Northern Maritime Museum (Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Natalia KAIKOVA -, Head, Research Department, Northern Maritime Museum (Arkhangelsk Oblast)

Ivan KATYSHEV, Department Head, Borisov Museum of Artistic Exploration of the Arctic, Artistic Culture of the Russian North State Museum Association of Arkhangelsk Oblast

Natalya PETROVA, Director, Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (St. Petersburg)

Angelina TERLETSKAYA, Head, Storage Sector of the Funds Department, Heritage of Chukotka Museum Centre

Vlada TIMOFEYEVA, Director General, National Fine Arts Museum of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Material and Spiritual Culture of the Peoples of Yakutia in the 17th – Early 20th Centuries in Museums of Germany

Online:

Elena BELOSHAPKINA, Director, Kytmanov Yenisei Museum of Local Lore (Krasnoyarsk Krai, online)

Kirill GAVRILIN, Advisor to the Rector, Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, Head, Department of History of Art and Humanities, Arts Candidate, Pro-fessor, Corresponding Member, Russian Academy of Arts Arctic Expeditions and Art: from Scientific Documentation to Artistic Achievements (online)

Maria KORNILOVA, Director, Peoples of Yakutia Music and Folklore Museum On the Role of Nomadic Museum in Popularizing the Cultural Heritage of the Indig-enous Peoples of Yakutia (in person)

Elena MENSHAKOVA, Director, Nenets Museum of Local Lore (Nenets Autonomous Okrug, online)

Sardana POSELSKAYA,, Head, Department of Sociocultural Interactions, National Fine Arts Museum of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (in person)

Evgenia KHOZYAINOVA, Head, Humanities Research Department, Shemanovsky Yamalo-Nenets Regional Museum and Exhibition Complex

Speakers:

Afanasy NOEV, First Deputy Minister of Culture and Spiritual Development of the Sakha Repub-lic (Yakutia) On the Modern Approach to the Development of Museums in Yakutia

Natalya PETROVA, Director, Russian State Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic (St. Petersburg) Museum as a Bridge in the Creation of the Arctic Image

Vlada TIMOFEYEVA, Director General, National Fine Arts Museum of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Evgenia KHOZYAINOVA, Head, Humanities Research Department, Shemanovsky Yamalo-Nenets Regional Museum and Exhibition Complex Discovery of the Arctic: Experience of the Shemanovsky Yamalo-Nenets Regional Museum and Exhibition Complex

Evdokiya SERGINA, Pedagogics Candidate, Associate Professor, Professor, Russian Academy of Nat-ural Sciences, Lecturer, Department of Library and Information Activities and Humanities, Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts (Yakutsk) Development of the Personnel Cluster of Museums of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in the Context of the Formation of Digital Museums

Alena KORYAKINA, Head, Momsk Museum of Local Lore (Khonuu village, Momsky Ulus, Sakha Re-public (Yakutia) Innovative Solutions for Promoting Arctic Museums

Olga PODSHUVEIT, Head, Department of Excursion Services and Reception of Visitors, Coordinator, Arctic Museums Section, Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg) Arctic Museums Section of the Union of Russian Museums: Pre-Conditions for Es-tablishment and Promising Areas of Activity

Signing of an Agreement on cooperation between the Sustainable Development of the Russian Federation Arctic Zone Interregional Scientific, Technological, Business and Educational Partnership, Ministry of Culture and Spiritual Devel-opment of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Arts (All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts).

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