Cultural citizenship and local solidarity: the experience of Social inclusion of the audience of Russian Museums

The project "Cultural Citizenship and Local Solidarity: the experience of social inclusion of the audience of museums in Russia" was supported as part of the 2022 competition for grants from the Russian Science Foundation for the event "Conducting research by scientific groups led by young scientists".

In the next three years, a study will be implemented aimed at identifying the role of small museums acting as “third places" in the production of cultural citizenship, and in the formation of social cohesion/exclusion of certain categories of the population. 

Along with the initial immersion of small museums in the local context of a particular territory, their articulation of local identity and conceptual uniqueness, small museums also play a role in the formation of cultural citizenship of the population of the whole country – they stimulate the interaction of various cultures and groups, including broadcasting the principles of federal and regional cultural policy. Recent social transformations have sharply raised the question of the need to study the reconfiguration of the role of local museums in settlements of various types, from the point of view of their place in changing local socio—cultural identities, forms of symbolically saturated materiality - all that can be called “cultural space".

The team, which includes Roman Abramov, Ekaterina Dolgova, Tatiana Vlasova, Konstantin Obukhov, Danila Ivanov, Maria Malofeeva and Irina Shuvalova, will work under the guidance of senior researcher of the Laboratory, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology Nikita Bolshakov.