CONTRIBUTION OF ACADEMIC COMMUNITY OF FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR COAL AND COAL CHEMISTRY OF SIBERIAN BRANCH OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE INTO PRESERVING SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF COAL ECONOMIC FIELD
The paper analyses work of Federal Research Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry of Si-berian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (Kemerovo, Russia) in preservation of scientific herit-age of coal economic sector. Kuzbass academic community’s matured need in conservation of its own professionally valuable experience was fulfilled through an opening of Museum of Coal in Federal Re-search Center for Coal and Coal Chemistry. Scientists’ interest to conserving significant heritage of coal science helps to enlarge source base for acquisition of the Museum’s stock, to improve informative and communicative characteristics of museum exhibition, to enter the Museum into web space. The author of the article considers Kuzbass researchers’ participation in a process of coal sector heritage objects mu-seumification as a way of their cultural self-identification, a channel for transfer of value systems of the profession.