Abstract:
The local museum as an important phenomenon of culture and educational
instrument appears on the territory of Bessarabia in the second half of the
century XIX and retains this important function during the interwar period.
Becoming in the Soviet period an important ideological instrument, the
interest for the local museum is lost, which portrays the specificity of the
local culture. At the present stage we have a good opportunity to use local
museums to involve students in the process of knowing and preserving the
local cultural heritage.