Museology as a Science: Kazakhstan Realities

Abstract

Museology as a science can be defined, having considered it from the main positions – a conceptual
framework, the system of employees training, specialized scientific institutions, professional communities
and periodicals. The research is aimed to studying, description, designation of problematic issues
within the announced subject. Its relevance is defined by the need of systematization and the description
of Kazakhstan museum researches on history, the theory and practice of museum matter, first of all, of
the independence period of Kazakhstan. Owing it to not fully formed museum traditions, versatility of
museum institutions due to geographical remoteness of different regions of the country, the separation
of museum researches and museum practices. As a result of a research the conclusion that Museology as
science in Kazakhstan is at the beginning of a way of the formation is drawn. The majority of researches
have no theoretical character and are published within professional directions of the museums or focus
on history of the museums. At the same time, there is no possibility of studying the whole field of the
acquired material. In the article an attempt of theoretical judgment of the Kazakhstan museum realities
within the aspect of the theoretical analysis in the professional field of researches is made for the first
time. Solutions to a proble