The Museum of Natural Science in Spiritual Profile of Society
The article examines the activities of museums in the natural sciences, the crucial problem of preservation of the environment and environmental education. It focuses on the relevance of the use of pedagogical principles of Culturology, which promotes the social and pedagogical breakthrough in the perception of the objective of educational and training opportunities of the museum institutions. Wrongly regarded as an episodic museum education institution, it can fully assume the functions of the center of moral aesthetic and environmental education, social institution of historical consciousness formation. Modern museum can provide a relative completeness of the educational influence to involve visitors in historic dialogue that promotes mainstream of cultural and social creativity. It is crucial that the organization of the museum and educational process is not a substitute, but a complement to school; it deepens students’ knowledge, increases their interest in learning. Involving students in socially and personally meaningful, science intensive and at the same time interesting teaching cognitive and constructive and creative activities, the museum provides students with a link to life, stimulates the formation of their moral, civic and creative qualities, improves the overall culture of the population, success of continuing education, tourism development, greater attention to the preservation of national cultural heritage and formation of the historical memory of the people’s demand to actualized museum institutions as important centers of intellectual life, having made them the subject of public and scientific attention.