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ABSTRACT
This paper explores the critical role of museum and exhibition activities as a factor in organizing the educational
process. Museums and exhibitions serve as valuable resources for facilitating experiential learning, fostering critical
thinking, and enhancing the overall educational experience. By providing students with direct access to historical
artifacts, scientific discoveries, works of art, and cultural heritage, these institutions offer a unique and immersive
learning environment that complements traditional classroom instruction.
The research delves into the various ways in which museum and exhibition activities can be integrated into educational
curricula across different academic disciplines. It examines the impact of such integration on students' engagement,
knowledge retention, and interdisciplinary understanding. Furthermore, the paper discusses the utilization of
technology and interactive exhibits to enhance the educational value of museum and exhibition visits, making them
more accessible and engaging for diverse student populations.
In addition, the study investigates the collaborative partnerships between educational institutions and museums,
highlighting best practices and successful models for incorporating museum resources into formal learning settings.
It also addresses the challenges and considerations in developing effective museum-based educational programs,
such as logistical constraints, funding, and curriculum alignment.
Research Article
MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES AS A FACTOR IN ORGANIZING
THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Submission Date:
December 20, 2023,
Accepted Date:
December 25, 2023,
Published Date:
December 30, 2023
Crossref doi:
https://doi.org/10.37547/ajsshr/Volume03Issue12-58
Sukhrob Kurbanov
Аrt Historian
-Museumologist,
Сhief Еducational And Methodological Department Of The Institute Social And
Political Sciences, Uzbekistan
Journal
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Through a comprehensive review of existing literature and empirical evidence, this research aims to provide insights
into the potential benefits and practical strategies for leveraging museum and exhibition activities as a catalyst for
enriching the educational process. Ultimately, it advocates for the continued exploration and utilization of these
cultural institutions to enhance the holistic development of students and promote lifelong learning.
KEYWORDS
Museum education, exhibition activities, educational process, experiential learning, interdisciplinary understanding,
educational partnerships.
INTRODUCTION
The formation of a personal culture in the context of
new trends in the socio-cultural development of the
country is one of the most important problems of
education today. And this is the great educational role
of museum and exhibition projects, which must fulfill
its educational and culture-creating function. Museum
and exhibition activities, along with educational
activities, are one of the components of the
sociocultural space of art museums in modern
Uzbekistan, which contributes to modeling the
educational system of visitors by introducing them to
cultural and aesthetic values through museum
pedagogy.
THE MAIN RESULTS AND FINDINGS
In recent years, the status of museum and exhibition
activities has increased in Uzbekistan as a large-scale
phenomenon in the cultural life of the country. Over
the years of independence, we discovered the world,
and the world discovered us. In this sense, I would like
to note the exhibition activities of the State Museum
of Arts of Uzbekistan. Over the years of its existence, it
has become one of the leading cultural, educational
and scientific centers of the country. A large collection
of artistic works was realized in original exhibition
projects, which immediately attracted the attention of
a wide audience to the State Museum of Uzbekistan
and made it one of the most sought-after art museums
in the country. The birth of original exhibition projects
is preceded by a thoughtful concept, knowledge and
careful selection of material, the creation of an
extraordinary artistic and exhibition solution - a holistic
artistic image in which the interior of the exhibition
space becomes a kind of canvas, and the works
become a palette.
The State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan is one of the
most visited museums in the republic. Every year its
doors open to thousands of visitors. The museum
makes a great contribution to the development of the
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spiritual culture of our country, introducing the public
to masterpieces of the world and national artistic
heritage. During 2013-2023, the State Museum of
Uzbekistan gained wide popularity not only in the CIS,
but throughout the world, thanks to participation in
foreign exhibitions as one of the oldest and richest
treasuries of unique monuments of art and cultural
heritage in Central Asia.
For example, in 2013, the State Museum of Uzbekistan
hosted a vernissage of the graphic artist Fatkhulla
Khaitov and two master classes conducted by the head
of the restoration laboratory, Bakhtiyor Batyrov, with
great success. The master classes took their rightful
place
within the framework of the special “Museum
Month” program developed by the Ministry of Culture
and Sports of Uzbekistan. Thus, in an interesting,
fascinating form, students of the Republican Art
College were told about the methods of restoring
works of painting, wood, ceramic and porcelain,
including the example of such types of work organized
in the restoration workshop of our museum. Before
this, the children were given a tour of the museum,
they looked at the exhibition of the artist D.
Mamedova, they visited the scientific and educational
exhibition “Music of the Glacier” and took part in a
master class prepared jointly with the Goethe Institute
in Tashkent. The exhibition of ceramics by the great
20th century artist Pablo Picasso and graphics by
Nadez
hda Kashina from the museum’s collections
aroused great public interest.
The exhibition of the first Uzbek artist Shamsroy
Khasanova, “Palette of the Female Soul” was the name
of the exhibition dedicated to the artist’s work. It
opened on November 19, 2013. The name of
Sh.Khasanova is associated with the creation of a
unique gallery of images of Uzbek poetesses, painted
by her in the style of miniatures. The exhibition
presents many of the works in this series, as well as
other paintings by the author - landscapes, still lifes,
scenes of urban and rural life. The life of Sh.Khasanova
is closely intertwined with the State Museum of Arts of
Uzbekistan. While still an art student, she began
working at the museum as a tour guide. Then, for many
years, Sh. Khasanova worked at the museum as a
research assistant, and during the last 10 years of her
life, since 1946, she was its director. Despite the fact
that Shamsroy Khasanova lived only 39 years, she
made an invaluable contribution to the culture and art
of Uzbekistan both as the first Uzbek artist and as a
devotee of museum activities.
In 2014, the State Museum of Uzbekistan hosted the
exhibition “Music of the Glacier”, which began to
attract public attention to the problem of melting
glaciers. Today, this problem is especially relevant for
the countries of Central Asia, since their total area in
this territory is huge. The cultural and didactic
exhibition “Music of the Glacier” was held in an
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unusual, exciting format: the exhibition consisted not
only of paintings and photographs, but also didactic
interactive components, films, communicative tasks,
as well as games created based on the works of the
laureates of the Open Competition “Music of the
Glacier” (Central Asia) and German young designers
-
winners of competitions held in Berlin and Hamburg
(Germany). The meaning of the installation became
clear even to the uninitiated - by allowing glaciers to
melt, humanity is losing huge reserves of fresh water.
In the exhibition, the actual noise of a real glacier was
reproduced through a video clip, and visitors had the
opportunity to hear it. And when you hear the music of
a melting glacier, the roar of large streams of water
rushing down, a very alarming feeling arises.
In 2022, a personal exhibition of the artist Gulchekhra
Rakhimova entitled “Look” opened at the State
Museum of Uzbekistan. At the exhibition, the director
of the Republican Specialized Art School named after
P. Benkov, Umidjon Khakimov, and the academician of
the Academy of Arts of the Republic of Uzbekistan,
Lekim Khakimovich Ibragimov, delivered welcoming
speeches.
In 2022, a round table was held at the State Museum of
Uzbekistan on the topic “The Work of Chingiz
Akhmarov through the Eyes of Specialists,” dedicated
to the work of the People’s Artist of
Uzbekistan Chingiz
Akhmarov. Speakers at the event were: People's Artist
of Uzbekistan, academician Bakhodir Jalolov, member
of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, representative
of the dynasty of Chingiz Akhmarov - Shakhnoz
Abdullayeva, member of the Academy of Arts of
Uzbekistan, student of Chingiz Akhmarov Sadyk
Rakhmanov, the speakers presented interesting
information about the life and work of the great artist.
The conversation made a great impression on the
youth.
In order to implement the Resolution of the President
of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 27, 2022, UP-
No. 261 “On the development of the service sector in
museums,” a painting master class was held at the
State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan for children
studying at the “My nest” education
al center and
students presented to display your works of art.
As part of the “Art Week 2022”, a round table
discussion and an open lecture on the topic: “Excerpts
from the history of Sogdian inscriptions” were held at
the State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan by professor
of the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies
Mirsadyk Iskhakov. The event was attended by
students
of
higher
educational
institutions,
representatives The media, museum researchers, the
younger generation interested in history.
In May 2023, a traveling exhibition of the State
Historical Museum of Uzbekistan was exhibited at
secondary school No. 64 in Tashkent. The museum
staff delighted the high school students; reproductions
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of the fine arts of Uzbekistan from the museum’s
exposition were installed in the school foyer. The
museum’s art critic expressed the hope that someone
will become seriously interested in beauty and,
perhaps, in the future will become a museum expert
and museum employee.
On May 18, 2023, the opening ceremony of a new art
exhibition “Uzbekistan XX
- XXI centuries: Painting and
Sculpture” was held at the State Museum of
Uzbekistan in connection with the International Day of
Museums. On the same day, the personal exhibition of
the People’s Artist of Uzbekistan Bahadir
Jalolov “Line
to Eternity” opened.
Museum and exhibition activities of Tashkent
museums as a factor in organizing the educational
process are a very common occurrence. In this sense,
regional museums of Uzbekistan also have interesting
museum and exhibition projects, in particular the
exhibition activities of the Samarkand State Art
Museum-Reserve. The museum-reserve includes 8
museums, 6 historical monuments, 2 shrines. The
museum's collections contain more than 211,000
exhibits. The museum's facilities are visited by more
than 800,000 visitors a year. More than 20 different
exhibitions are organized annually in the halls of the
museum-reserve.
Among the latest significant exhibitions of the
Samarkand State Art Museum-Reserve, one can
highlight the “Aral
-d
ream” exhibition. The legendary
Aral tragedy has no analogues in world history. And,
perhaps, there is no person on the planet who has not
heard about this at least once. The tragedy worries
environmental scientists and the surrounding
population, writers, artists and actors. There is a
regular flow of tourists here. And their countless
photographs and videos on social networks,
documentaries and paintings by artists indicate that
the long-standing environmental issue remains
relevant. The exhibition “Aral
-
dream” involves 7 artists
from different regions of our country. These are Nukus,
Tashkent, Urgench. Vasily Khapov, Saidbek Sabirbaev,
Shirin
Tashova,
Sarsenbai
Boybusinov,
Sobir
Kutlimurodov, Abdulla Razhabov, Ikram Matchanov.
The Aral-dream exhibition is about revealing and
strengthening opinions about a new tourist
destination. The desire to show the beauty of
forgotten places through paintings. There is a saying by
Pablo Picasso: “Life is short, Art is forever!” So,
through art, we made an attempt to immortalize on
canvas the Aral region with all its charms, joys,
traditions, everyday life and holidays.
The next interesting exhibition is “The Great Silk Road
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the golden heritage of Uzbekistan and China.” The
organization of this exhibition in Samarkand, the most
important historical center of culture of world
significance, shows the historical roots of modern
political, economic and cultural interaction between
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the states of Uzbekistan and China, which for many
centuries formed the main links of the Great Silk Road.
In this context, the exhibition created in Samarkand,
located in a historical building (the building was built at
the beginning of the 20th century for a Russian-Chinese
bank), should also be considered. The opening of this
exhibition took place in September 2022 and was timed
to coincide with the days of the SCO meeting in
Samarkand. The presentation of exhibits uses mainly
digital technologies 3D mapping, hologram - a modern
technology of volumetric gala projection in space
based on conceived plots in the form of short
spectacular paintings, animations, etc. The exhibition
includes examples of art and artistic crafts (textiles,
ceramics, embossing and etc.) from the collection of
the Samarkand State Museum-Reserve.
It is also necessary to note the exhibition activities of
the Directorate of Art Exhibitions of the Academy of
Arts of Uzbekistan. Since 1959, DHV has carried out a
wide stationary and traveling exhibition practice in
collaboration with museums and galleries of the
Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Ministries of the CIS
countries and foreign museum institutions. Every year,
DHW holds over 50 exhibitions (stationary and
traveling
exhibitions)
in
Uzbekistan
before
participating in large-scale international exhibition
events, such as “Uzbekistan on the Silk Road” in
Stuttgart (Germany, 1995), “Art and Culture of the
Timurid Era” in France (1996 g.), Expo 2000 in
Hannover, etc.
DHW plans are formed in advance, taking into account
the main directions of museum and exhibition
activities. These are republican and international
exhibitions, thematic and traveling, personal and
group, exhibitions of artists celebrating their
anniversaries; exhibitions from museum and private
collections, from the creative heritage of recognized
masters of art of Uzbekistan; exhibitions dedicated to
traditional crafts and the creativity of young people.
Among them, the most significant in scale are the
annual republican events “Eng Ulug, Eng Aziz”,
dedicated to the Independence Day of Uzbekistan and
the Festival of Traditional Crafts held annually for the
Navruz holiday.
The creative team of the DHV always gives preference
to thematic conceptual exhibitions and retrospectives
representing the art of any region of Uzbekistan or a
separate type of art that needs special coverage and
which, in addition to narrow workshop problems and
the demonstration of new works, allows us to present
and expand our own museum collection. Illustrative
examples are the exhibition “Surkhandarya. Valley of
Legends” 2013, where a wide retros
pective of
archaeological material, fine and folk art of the region,
and
photography
was
presented;
exhibition-
competition “My Mahalla” 2014; “Folk crafts of
Bukhara and Kashkadarya”, “Traditional textiles and
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costume of Uzbekistan”, held as part of the Cr
afts
Festival in 2014 and 2015. and many others.
It must be admitted that we are still far from the
progress in restoration and exhibition practice that
exists abroad. The funds allocated for the technical
equipment of our museums and exhibitions and for
replenishing collections are too modest. We have a rich
cultural and historical heritage in modern fine and folk
art. The goal of the Directorate’s exhibition projects is
to educate people in respect for their own history, their
own and the world’s cultural
heritage, and any possible
means are good to achieve this goal.
Over the years of independence, our audience's
acquaintance with the world cultural heritage and
foreign art has intensified. This occurs, as a rule, thanks
to the activities of foreign embassies and
representative offices. The most accessible cultural
information is provided through foreign photographic
materials. Thus, one cannot fail to note the excellent
work of the Japan Foundation and the Embassy of
Japan in Uzbekistan, which annually introduce us to
wonderful visual material - several exhibitions of
traditional and modern ceramics, dolls, posters and
photographs, organized in the halls of the Academy of
Arts, became a celebration of communication with
high art and culture of presentation of exhibition
material.
I would like to note the series of design exhibitions
organized by the German and French embassies,
painting and photography exhibitions organized by the
Latvian Embassy, and the annual, now traditional,
creative meetings of Korean and Uzbek artists.
Among the exhibitions of foreign art of the period of
independence, the majority are occupied by art
exhibitions, among which we can highlight personal,
retrospective, collective, international competition,
and program exhibitions. For example, the exhibition
of folk art of Uzbekistan in France, organized with the
assistance of the City Hall of the 11th arrondissement of
Paris and the Embassy of Uzbekistan in 2015, became a
pleasant event in the cultural life of the country.
Residents of Lyon and Beaugency also became
acquainted with the work of Uzbek folk artists.
Unfortunately, such exchange exhibitions are rare and
are held only in Representative Offices of Uzbekistan
abroad, and not on professional platforms.
Over the past 20 years, a lot of positive experience has
developed in the field of holding international
competitive exhibitions. Important events in the
cultural life of the republic were the Tashkent Biennale
of Contemporary Art (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009,
2011, 2013, 2018, 2022), which have a great impact on
the development of innovative trends in the art of
Uzbekistan.
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In 2017, the exhibition “Treasures of Nukus” was held
in Moscow at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
The exhibition featured more than 250 works of
painting and graphics, as well as objects of archeology
and decorative and applied art from the collection of
one of the largest museums in Uzbekistan - the State
Museum of Art of the Republic of Karakalpakstan
named after Savitsky. According to experts, the
collection of the Savitsky Museum is the second-largest
collection of Russian avant-garde works in the world
after the collection of the Russian Museum in St.
Petersburg. Over 30 years, Savitsky collected more
than 44 thousand works of painting and graphics,
including works by such famous avant-garde artists as
Robert Falk, Lyubov Popova, Ivan Kudryashov, Kliment
Redko, Alexander Volkov, Alexander Nikolaev and
others.
On March 10, 2020, the opening of the exhibition
“Fashion of Uzbekistan: Yesterday and Today” took
place at the Tashkent House of Photography. The
exhibition is dedicated to the history of Uzbek fashion,
the thread of which stretches from the 1960s and
smoothly flows into the present day. The exhibition
project is organized by the Islam Karimov Foundation
and is aimed at popularizing the cultural and historical
heritage of Uzbekistan. The exhibition consisted of
two blocks: the first was dedicated to the history of the
1960s-2000s. It presents fashion magazines, sketches,
clothes and black and white photographs of the
capital's fashionistas against the backdrop of
landmarks that are still beloved to this day. Entering
the second block, you step onto the podium. On the
sides are the works of modern designers, and at this
moment there is a feeling that the mannequins are
spectators, and the guests are models. Having reached
the end of the catwalk, you pay attention to the mirror,
which represents the future of fashion. Thus, in the
House of Photography you can go through the path of
plunging into the history of fashion of the 1960s, into
the work of modern designers and imagine the bright
future of the country's fashion industry.
The creative style of modern designers is completely
different. Saida Amir, Taisiya Chursinova, LALI Fashion
House (Lali Fazylova), Moel Bosh brand (Zukhra Inat),
Markhamat Umarova and Hilola Sher presented their
collections. The curator of the exhibition was art critic
Binafsha Nodir. She also commented on the creation
and opening of the exhibition: “About four years ago I
was leafing through old magazines from the 60s and
saw interesting models that are still very relevant
today. The new is always the forgotten old. If we talk
about fashion, then festivals and fashion weeks
immediately come to mind.”
In November 2022, the first exhibition entitled
“Treasures of the Oases of Uzbekistan” was
held in
Paris at the Louvre Museum. At the intersection of
caravan routes." The second exhibition was held at the
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Institute of the Arab World, “The Road to Samarkand,
the Wonders of Silk and Gold.”
In the period from 2017 to the present, our country has
established creative contacts, our exhibition spaces
have been provided to the art of different countries.
We tried to differentiate the exhibitions of foreign art
in Uzbekistan and received an interesting picture that
reflected the historical period in which we live, its
pulsation, its political, social, moral, creative issues, the
desire of representatives of different peoples, cultures
at the turn of centuries, millennia to understand each
other, establish a dialogue. In the future, exhibition
activities include the expansion and deepening of
existing creative contacts with embassies, foreign
organizations, cultural centers, and acquaintance with
the art of countries that have not yet been presented
to the Uzbek audience.
CONCLUSION
Based on the above, we can say that the exhibition is
the result not only of a social order, but also the result
of the educational work of employees of exhibition
halls and museums, as well as teachers of educational
institutions in the field of museum affairs. Thus, the
interaction of all participants in a multi-level
sociocultural space increases the level of art education
of students and introduces young people to artistic
creativity in the process of organizing exhibition
activities. Today's art museums and exhibition halls of
Uzbekistan act as a sociocultural educational object,
involving students in the process of cognition,
contributing to the education of the student's
personality in the sociocultural space, allowing her to
recognize herself as a subject of culture and
understand her place in the historical and cultural
process.
According to the Statistics Agency under the President
of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the number of
exhibitions organized in museums of Uzbekistan as of
January 1, 2023, 1301 exhibitions were organized in
museums of the Republic of Uzbekistan, of which 444
were presented outside museums. Number of
exhibitions by year: 2020
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846, 2021
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1081, 2022
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1301.
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