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Abstract. The paper proposes a new approach to the problem of the genesis of the museum. This approach considers the appearance of the museum not as a result of the evolutionary transformation of the proto-museum forms of collecting, but as a result of the abrupt changes of sociocultural institutions caused by the change of epistemes, the systems of the acquisition of scientific and, in particular, humanitarian knowledge. The description of such changes is carried out with the use of the notion "objectivation" that was proposed by Michel Foucault during the study of such processes in the European culture of the XIX century. This method allows associating changes in the practice of collecting, which led to the formation of the museum, with the development of political, legal, epistemological and other sociocultural practices in the specified period of history.

Key words and phrases: музеология, музей, коллекционирование, объективация, дискурсивные практики, Фуко, генеалогия музея, археология знания, museology, museum, collecting, objectivation, discursive practices, Foucault, genealogy of museum, archaeology of knowledge