MUSEUM INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDEPENDENT UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is an attempt to analyze the main tendencies of the development of museums of higher educational establishments in the era of independent Ukraine. It is emphasized that the museums of history were the most affected by the transformation, because ceased to be an instrument of ideological and patriotic upbringing. The features of this period are the creation of memorial museums devoted to figures, which could not be presented through existing stamps in the Soviet period, the growth of the number of historical, art and branch “temples of muses”. Instead, there was a decrease of the number and staff of natural museums. It coincides with the European tendencies of the university museums development.