THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSEUM EXPOSITION FORMS ON THE EHAMPLE OF EXPOSITION "20TH CENTURY: STAVROPOL - TOGLIATTI" AT TOGLIATTI LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM
In a modern world, museum serves as an important sociocultural institution and its role in preservation and presentation of cultural heritage, in social adaptation, education and edutainment increases dramatically. Nowadays a museum tends to become a center of education, communication, cultural information and creative innovations. Hence, the understanding of basic museum communication changes: though recently the quality of museum expositions was determined by their compliance to traditional scientific schemes, focused on museum objects and collections, at the present moment expositions target innovation, both technological and cultural, information density, emotional inclusion and participation of an attendee and accessibility. We used aforementioned trends while developing the modern interactive historical exposition of Togliatti Local History Museum “20th Century: Stavropol - Togliatti”. This exposition is a place of comprehension and re-comprehension of local history with an accent on both substantial and formal (technological) novation, a tool for apprehension and representation of local capacity. The exposition is a made-up multiplex theater with five “cinema” halls, telling the stories of different periods of Stavropol-Togliatti. Each cinema hall has a recognizable identity based on the name of former Togliatti cinemas: “Stormy Petrel”, “ Avant-garde”, “Lighthouse”, “Cosmos”, “Saturn”. These names represent the spirit of the period being depicted, including the revolutionary and civil war history of Stavropol-Togliatti, life of a hinterland city during World War II, the relocation of the city and the building of Kuibyshev hydroelectric power station, the time of intense building of giant chemical plants, Volga Automobile Plant and Motor City. “Movie” is a provisional term. This is a visualization, object-driven communicative environment of each exposition zone, build upon a scenario and having a plot that is typical for that certain period in history. The exposition utilizes several levels of communication (visual, textual, material, multimedia), the method of “hidden” expositions, various scenarios of the visitor’s behavior, including multimedia and light quest.