Museum’s festival in modern cultur

The Festival is a widespread popular form of people’s cultural experience. The museums adopted this form to their needs, appeared as the organizers and the pertinent space for art festivals for different audiences. One of the target audiences became the museum community itself. The festival turned to a place for dialogue and communication, self representation and self evaluation for the museums. The phenomena of museum festival observed on the example of Saint Petersburg museums festivals from the structural-functional approach. The history, structure, functions and forms of them become the objects of analisys. We may say about of at least two types of festival forms: the festival as the form of culture entertainment activity of the museum, and the festival as the professional representation.