SKANSEN IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURAL AND LEISURE PRACTICES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to investigate the cultural and leisure context of the activity of open-air museums in Ukraine in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, to reveal aspects of the transformation of cultural and leisure practices and the specificity of their work in the future through the prism of crisis phenomena in the state. The research methodology provides general scientific principles of systematization and generalization, which contributed to the analysis and helped to identify and scientifically substantiate the problems of cultural and leisure activity of openair museums in Ukraine in modern conditions, in particular during martial law. With the help of the dialectical method, the cultural and leisure activities of the open-air museums of Ukraine in recent years were studied as a progressive and uneven process, which was influenced by socio-political, military, and general societal factors. The systematic historiographical analysis determined the consideration of the open-air museum as a historical phenomenon that arose and functions in the system of society. The purpose and tasks of the article also determined the application of an axiological approach, which made it possible to determine the role of open-air museums in the implementation of cultural and leisure activities in current realities. The use of the analytical method contributed to the identification of the conceptual foundations of further scientific perspectives for the analysis of the cultural and leisure activity of open-air museums in modern cultural and socio-political realities in Ukraine. The scientific novelty consists in establishing the objectivity of the evaluation of the cultural and leisure activity of open-air museums in Ukraine in the languages of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and outlining the perspectives of the researched issues. The cultural and leisure sphere, which by its very nature is very stable, is forced to look for ways to be closer to its audience, consumers of cultural resources and services, in proportion to the demands of time and opportunities. The pandemic forced to look for new forms of interaction of open-air museums with the public (innovative solutions), which proved to be quite successful in quarantine restrictions for cultural self-isolation, and the Russian full-scale military invasion of Ukraine poses a danger to people’s lives and the integrity of cultural objects, so defining the prospects culturally - leisure activity of museums in such conditions is difficult, because it is impossible to predict how long this threatening reality will be for the Ukrainian people and its cultural and historical heritage.