This article attempts to evaluate the museum boom that began in the 1960s. The authors focus on the practice of museum work. During this period, the processes under study most clearly manifested themselves in the activities of school museums, which enjoyed maximum state support. Requirements for the organization and conditions of existence during the specified period were minimized. It provided a literally explosive growth in the number of museums. However, it also affected the quality and content of museum activities. First, it led to the lack of museum items. Secondly, it caused formalism in work (especially in relation to the design of expositions). Thirdly, it provoked the search for options for solvin problems with the acquisition of storages and exposure. Fourthly, among the solutions found in some museums there were unique practices of designing museum space. For example, the objectification in the exposition the memory of a witness to events has become one of the traditions of work, namely in school museums. The short period of existence of Lenin's school museums, as an example of an ideological anniversary installation, gives every reason to be careful in using such a practice in modern conditions.
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Bogdanov L.G., Komissarova I.A. Museum boom and the phenomenon of Lenin rooms in educational institutions: (On the materials of Ivanovo region),
Ivanovo State University Bulletin, Series: Humanities, 2023, iss. 3, pp. 96—106.