ON V.M.VIKENTYEV’S ATTEMPT TO CREATE A MUSEUM/INSTITUTE OF A NEW TYPE (BASED ON ARCHIVAL RECORDS)
The interesting attempt of the Egyptologist V.M.Vikentyev to create, during the 1920s, a “museum of a new type” is being studied on the basis of archival records, including those that have been published for the first time. According to his plan, the ancient artifacts housed at such a museum would be not only exhibited, but also regularly studied. Vikentyev himself possessed neither adequate degree of expertise nor sufficient staff to achieve that goal, although he did attempt to bring several ancient Eastern collections together using his administrative resources.