ZAPOROZHYE ANTIQUITIES IN UKRAINIAN MUSEOGRAPHY OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURY

Abstract

This article examines the problem of introducing material and visual sources of Zaporozhye issues into scientific circulation by publishing them in museum publications of the second half of the XIX – early XX century. Particular attention is paid to geography, methods of income of Zaporozhian antiquities to museum collections, their number and species diversity. Museographic texts demonstrate that the Zaporozhye collections were formed mainly from the territory of the Katerynoslav region (now Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions) through the efforts of local scientists and intellectuals. The greatest interest of collectors was weapons, household items of the Cossacks, and also the image of the Zaporizhzhya Cossack in the portrait. Research has shown that museum catalogs and guides provide poor coverage of ways to obtain items. The informative potential of this part of museographic texts requires the involvement of other sources (scientific publications, epistolary). The article shows that museum publications can be used in the study of the history of collecting activities and museum work in Ukraine in the second half of the XIX – early XX century