THE MANUALS «MUSEALITY» IN THE HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE XIX th CENTURY
The concept of «museality» is one of the main theoretical constructs in the modern museology. Museality means that a person considers selected subjects as such important testimonies of a certain state of things that wants to keep them as long as possible and to disseminate knowledge about them in the society. This particular relation of a person to his world is connected with the material objects, which are called «musealias». «Museal need» to take from everyday use some monuments of antiquity had various motives in different historical periods.