Value of Civil Law as a Regulator of Digitalization of Museums in the Russian Federation

The modern museum is traditionally considered as the guardian of cultural and historical heritage of the society. Ambiguously, one can perceive the category of “cultural heritage” through different content based on social, cultural, economic established views. The use of information technologies in the activities of museums creates the prerequisites for the study of legal aspects in this area. The museum is now becoming an active participant in public relations, in accordance with its legal status and legal identity. The forms and procedure for the participation of museums in civil traffic in the digital space require legal regulation. Law is the guarantor of establishing a single procedure for transferring museum values to digital mode. The comprehensive influence of digital technologies provides for the creation of databases of museum objects with their description, attachment of images, and accounting operations related to the registration of new valuable items and their transfer to museum exhibitions; import and export abroad. Despite the patronage and financial support of museums the political and legal concept of the state is aimed at preserving cultural heritage, mainly through the mechanism of civil law regulation. Its exceptional value lies in the fact that civil law norms are aimed not only at regulating relations concerned with the preservation of cultural property related to museum objects, but also their circulation. The paper justifies the importance of the civil legal mechanism governing the digitalization of museum objects in the Russian Federation. The study serves a prerequisite for further analysis and identification of problems related to the adaptation of the mechanism of legal regulation of museum digitalization and its integration into social space. The scientific and practical significance of research results is the development of ideas about the features of civil and legal relations in the museum sphere related to the process of digitalization of museum objects.