Classical Museum: Problems of Cultural Heritage Interpretation
This article investigates the mission of the classical museum to conservate both material and non-material heritage. It also highlights the problems of interaction between religious culture and the museum in the contex of soteriological and religious-moral basis. The spiritual and moral problematic that can be seen in Сhristian anthropology, classical literature and art, help to expand the interpretational models and methods of exposing cultural heritage. They also result in enrichment of the museum with traditional spheres of the Christian world outlook that are crucial not only for creating expositions of Ancient Russian and Medieval art but also classical and contemporary as well. The system of trichotomous analysis helps to identify various levels of culture, aspects of spiritual and moral, religious and secularized worldviews. The main idea is enlarging the figurative language by means of semantic, spiritual-aesthetic, dramaturgic potential of the exposition, which becomes a symbol, text and meaning at once. The methods of interpretation and exhibition of masonry, that influenced many cultural spheres of XVIII - the first half of XIX centuries, are analyzed by means of the example of the paintings of F. S. Rokotov. These works can be found in the Russian museum. This article also analyses the semantics of baroque and rococo that are shown within the exposition.