THE ARCHEOLOGY EXPOSITION CONCEPT IN DEMIDOV MUSEUM OF MINING INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT HISTORY IN ZMEINOGORSK

Abstract

The paper is devoted to development of the conception of the archeology exhibition hall at Demidov Museum of Mining Industry Development History. The authors give a brief description of the funds of the museum and the history of their formation, analyze the composition of the archeology collection hall, reveal the major problem areas of the existing exposition and find the ways to resolve them, create a graphical floor plan of the archeology hall and determine the main directions of further exposition development. While working with the exhibits several significant shortcomings were revealed. The main problem was a mismatch of the exhibits with the chronology, as well as technical deficiencies in the design: the lack of labeling on individual exhibits, the fragmentation of the same archaeological era exhibits into several storefronts, an excessive amount of auxiliary (illustrative) material. Thus, the conception of the archeology exhibition hall at Demidov Museum of Mining Industry Development History was developed. As a result, we have found and corrected errors of the exposition, archaeological material was classified and arranged according to the eras, the exposition was significantly improved with new archaeological materials, the auxiliary text was created and the topographical plan was developed.

Keywords

• museum
• exhibition
• collection
• archeology
• design
• zmeinogorsk