Fiction about museums as an alternative museum guides

Abstract

The global financial crisis has weakened many segments of the art market, including the museum field. The largest museums of the world are forced to either reduce excursion and research programs, or cut funding acquisitions or completely closed. However, in today’s museum world are clearly seen two trends: if some state museums in the financial crisis closed, private museums, by contrast, are created; the success of individual museums (both public and private) is largely due to indirect advertising in the detective and adventure novels. This is explained by means of certain advantages of fiction before the museum guides and handbooks. Consequently, one of the ways out of the crisis museums seen their cooperation (in different versions) with novelists.