FEATURES OF INTERACTIVE MUSEUMS OF SCIENCE: A VIEW THROUGH THE PRISM OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL IDEAS OF YAKOV PERELMAN

Abstract

The development of a child's creative potential is an important component of scientific education. Its formation is directly related to curiosity and is best stimulated through play, design, art and speech activities. The formation of the concept of interactive museums of science plays a significant role in the development of students’ creative potential. We considered the organizational and pedagogical features of the House of Interesting Science for Children, created in the 30s of the twentieth century by the Soviet scientific and technical team led by the world-famous popularizer of science Ya. Perelman. The main factors and prerequisites for the success of museums are identified and characterized, such as high scientific level of exhibits, their technical and scientific quality and interactivity, use of heuristic methods, demonstration of unexpected effects in natural phenomena, scaling ideology of science education, dissemination of experience competitions, contests, various events that can be a source of new creative ideas, the formation of quality publications that create conditions for further independent research and stimulate visits to museum spaces. The House of Interesting Science, created under the leadership of Ya. Perelman, can also be considered the first startup with a healthy marketing model. The key approaches to the creation of such innovative spaces of scientific education, which are based on the stimulation of curiosity and independent research activities, are identified. Forming the creative potential of students is one of the tasks of the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which created the Museum of Science - the first interactive space, which was prepared on the basis of thorough retrospective and comparative studies of relevant experience.