Regulatory and legal framework for the organization of military-historical museums (rooms of combat traditions) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of Regulatory and legal framework for the organization of military history museums (rooms of combat traditions) in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was established that the activity of military-historical museums is based on the laws of Ukraine, which regulate the activities of the museum business in general, normative legal acts of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, as well as the Ministry of Defense. The basic normative legal act in the field of operation of military-historical museums in Ukraine is the Law of Ukraine "On Museums and Museum Matters", though the initial version of this Law did not provide for military-historical museums as a separate type. It is recorded only in 2009.
 The 2019 Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine approving the Instruction on the organization of the activities of military museums, museums (rooms) of military traditions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a sectoral regulatory act in the field of operation of military-historical museums. It is noted that the approved Instruction eliminates certain unsettled aspects of the issue; however, it is not devoid of certain shortcomings.
 The structure and peculiarities of military museums in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, their functions and tasks have been analyzed. In particular, attention was paid to the functioning of the National Military Historical Museum of Ukraine as the main one in the system of museums of the Armed Forces.
 Since, as stipulated in the Instruction, the normalization of museum activity is carried out by a statute or regulation approved by an order of the Ministry of Defense, it is claimed that there is a Regulation on the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (in 2010 it was renamed the National Military Historical Museum of Ukraine), approved by the Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine in 1996, which is typical for similar founding documents of other museum institutions of the system.