A working vocabulary — what curators, conservators and museologists mean when they use these words. Definitions follow the dissertation.
The set of measures that ensure works of art, archaeological materials, archive documents and other museum objects are preserved in stable condition over long timescales. Temperature and humidity must be held constant; light and ventilation regulated; dust and insects kept out. Conservation is inseparable from museum restoration.
A historically formed cluster of monuments, buildings or structures whose mutual relationships with surrounding landscape carry historical, archaeological, architectural, aesthetic or socio-cultural value — including residential, religious, scientific, palace, trade, industrial works, painting, sculpture, decorative arts and architecture taken either separately or together. Sitorai Mohi Xossa is such a complex.
A permanently operating cultural institution organised for the preservation, study and public display of museum objects and museum collections.
A monument whose particular qualities make its preservation and public display a public-interest matter.
An open-air museum that holds a living page of history within its historical-cultural and natural environment. The Bukhara State Museum-Reserve, of which Sitorai Mohi Xossa is one branch, is of this category.
The display of a particular period or theme through museum objects. Composed and shown as a unified, purposeful sequence built on a scientific concept.
A historical-artistic museum organised on the basis of a palace ensemble inside or outside a city. The intact preservation and restoration of the architectural-artistic and decorative ensemble is the central task. Sitorai Mohi Xossa is exactly this kind of museum.
The discipline studying the history and social functions of museums, the theory and methodology of museum work.
A direction of museum work: the formation of historical-cultural or natural objects as the subject of museum exposition, undertaken to preserve and reveal their historical-cultural, scientific and artistic value to the maximum possible extent.
Exact reproductions that copy the volume, shape, colour and surface texture of an original. Built from precise measurements of the original, sometimes from drawings.
The activity of creating the material and legal conditions under which the museum object and collection are kept in their original state.
Returning to its original state the parts of an artwork that have come off, broken or been damaged.
Showing for view. Museum exposition is shaped on a purposeful and scientifically grounded concept, with artistic presentation harmonised with technical means of display.
Source: Roziqulova Sh. K., master’s dissertation glossary, K. Behzod NRDI, 2026.