MUSEUMS «GYLYM ORDASY» AS A SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF ALMATY

Abstract

The article reveals the role of the museums of the Republican State Enterprise «Gylym Ordasy», engaged in the storage, study and public presentation of museum exhibits and museum collections, ensuring the popularization of the rich scientific, historical, cultural and natural heritage of the country, carrying out research, educational and cultural outreach activities. Museums of the Gylym Ordasy occupy a special place in the system of museology in Kazakhstan. The unique exhibits and artifacts concentrated in the museum collections have no analogues in the republic and are exhibited in a single copy. Unique artifacts and exhibits of the Gylym Ordas museums were presented in more than 20 countries around the world. The article examines the stages of formation of museums located in an architectural monument as scientific, educational and cultural centers of the country, which store mysterious and unique exhibits of the nature, history and culture of Kazakhstan. The characteristics of rare exhibits stored in the Gylym Ordasy museums are given. Exhibits and expositions of museums preserve and popularize the rich historical and cultural heritage of the people. The wealth of the nation, accumulated over centuries, must be passed on to the coming generation preserved and supplemented. Today will be history tomorrow, and the memory of us in the future depends on what activities this day will be filled with. Almaty is the scientific, cultural and educational center of the country, and the museums of the Gylym Ordasy correspond to the high status of the city. They play a huge role in the upbringing of the younger generation, performing a great educational function.

Materials and methods of research. As sources for writing the article, scientific materials on museum affairs, the material and spiritual history of Kazakhstan, as well as historical data on the study of the cultural, natural and scientific heritage of the country were used.

As part of the study, traditional methods used in the study of the selected source base were used. These are mainly contextual, descriptive-narrative methods based on the collection and analysis of the necessary data, a list of characteristics of the subject of research.

The study of the directions of development of museums in modern times is carried out by identifying analogies and differences in their cultural, social affiliation and significance. The study was also carried out on the basis of the use of comparative historical and typological methods as a manner and style of presentation of historical facts.