Ivan A. Grinko*, Anton B. Lagutin**, Aleksandr A. Goncharov***

Museum and Tourist Development Department of Moscow Agency for Tourism and Recreation “MOSGORTUR”, Moscow, Russia

*E-mail: IAGrinko@yandex.ru
**E-mail: ALagutin@mosgortur.ru
***E-mail: AGoncharov@mosgortur.ru

Keywords: archaeology, museums, archaeological museums, anthropology of academic life, museum designing, museum exhibitions.

This paper develops the studies in the latent conflict between the interests of professional community and the public in designing museum archaeological exhibitions. The main objective of the article is to identify the possibilities for an archaeological museum to combine the interests of professional and local communities, as well as tourist audience. To implement this task the authors analyzed the requests of the professional archaeological community in the Russian Federation for the formats and content of archaeological museums and compared the obtained results with modern practices of presenting the archaeological heritage in European museums. The research tools included opinion survey among representatives of the archaeological community and field studies in museums in Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Greece, Poland, Estonia, Israel and other European countries.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630009076-2