Concept of «museology» in scientific works of Z. Stransky

Czech museologists played a huge role in the formation of museology as a scientific discipline. Theoretical developments in the field of museology of the Czech scientist Z. Z. Stransky mostly influenced the formation of the scientific school of the Department of museology and cultural heritage of Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, that can be traced through a succession of scientific researches in the theory of museology of its professors, graduates, postgraduates and students of this department. For the first time the concept of «museology» is revealed on the basis of Z. Stransky’s latest monograph, unpublished in Russia, «Archeology and museology» (2005). The article underlines the absence of museological scientific works translated into Russian with the exemption of the most famous ones. The article deals with the basic definions of museology as a science, including the unresolved issue of terminology, methodology, structure based on scientific articles of Russian museologists (E. N. Mastenitsa, L. M. Shlyakhtina, etc) and the Czech scientist Z. Z. Stransky.