Multicultural Education Direction of the Modern Historical Museum

Historical Museums of Elabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University implemented educational and cultural activities. When implementing the latter the museum staff resorted to innovations, which allowed for an expansion in the range of visitors, and a profound interest in the historical past of the university, city and region. The museum employees developed a conceptual model of a museum-pedagogic programmes, called "Museum-Clio" for school children. The introduced model "Museum-Clio" includes the following museum pedagogy programmes: a role-playing game "Russian and Tatar merchants at the Spasskaya Fair", a research project "Letter from the Front", and a creative work "History all around me". In its practical implementation the model "Museum Clio" provides excursion arrangements, so as to promote and intensify the mental powers of secondary school students, in the conditions of learning about divers cultures. Excursions are conducted in the form of games; active forms of cognition, free exchange of ideas, role and creative tasks are widely practiced. Studies through games for secondary school students organized in the Museum of Elabuga merchants as part of an innovative project, play an important role in education and upbringing. On the basis of household items, secondary school students get acquainted with the daily lives of the inhabitants of Elabuga. The study draws a conclusion that furthers the development of historical museums, through expanding their video-didactic and interactive areas of work, and the use of techniques for organizing individual creativity of school children. (C) 2016 Published by Future Academy.