ORGANIZATION OF COLLECTION WORK IN THE VOLYN MUSEUM OF LOCAL LORE (1991 – 2021)

Abstract

The article is devoted to an overview of the organization of collection work in the Volyn Museum of Local Lore (Lutsk) as one of the main activities of the institution during the historical period of its work from 1991 – 2021. These 30 years saw the formation of Ukrainian statehood and all its spheres, including the museum sector. The article aims to analyze in detail the process of organizing the attribution, acceptance, and storage of museum objects in the Volyn Museum of Local Lore collections to study the accompanying documentation and the peculiarities of its implementation. Based on the study of state-level regulations and internal museum documentation, it was found that, in general, Ukrainian museums have a unified accounting of museum objects. Only some nuances differ due to the museum institution's structure and the museum collection's peculiarities. The article summarizes the information on the process of receiving, describing, attributing, and registering museum objects by the collections department and their classification into storage groups. The peculiarities of accounting for objects in different departments and branches of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore are highlighted. Considerable attention is paid to the museum documentation accompanying the registration of museum objects and the peculiarities of its maintenance and storage of the museum collection. The article analyzes the division of the museum collection into storage groups formed under the peculiarities of the museum collections. The question of the expediency of the existing division into storage groups, which has existed since Soviet times, remains under discussion. Special attention is paid to the group "RA" – religion, atheism, the name and content of which is a Soviet cliche that must be reformed and renamed. It is concluded that, generally, the process of organizing the collection work in the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, although in many respects preserving Soviet traditions, has been somewhat reformed since 1991. The organization of museum accounting is entirely based on the current Ukrainian legislation in the field of culture and internal museum administrative documentation. It is appropriate to analyze the process of organizing collection work in the Volyn region on the example of the Volyn Museum of Local Lore, as it is the leading museum institution in the region that provides methodological support to other museums.