The production internship for students of the "Cultural Studies" educational program (group BVM-22) at the Sergei Parajanov Museum was a true marathon of professional growth. Throughout February, students progressed from introductory meetings to actual curatorial projects
Calendar of Key Events:
- February 9: Start and Inter-course Dialogue
A joint meeting of 3rd and 4th-year students took place. Participants discussed principles of professional ethics and the specifics of working with exhibition and archival materials. Fourth-year students focused on Parajanov's authorial mythology for their qualification papers, while third-year students focused on museum management analytics.
- February 13: Exhibition Policy Analysis
Students presented the results of their first week of internship. The focus was on the museum's communication strategies, audience engagement, and digital tools for art presentation. The assigned task was to develop a conceptual description for a mini-exhibition project with potential grant support.
- February 16: Art Catalogs and Grant Management
Students presented art catalogs prepared according to museum accounting and inventory standards. A significant portion of the session was dedicated to the structure of grant applications, from formulating goals to studying international donor strategies.
- February 17: Project-Curatorial Seminar
The day was dedicated to the logic of building a curatorial narrative and working with symbols as cultural codes. Students prepared zoning plans for exhibitions and adapted complex academic texts for public communication.
- February 18: Papier-mâché Technology and Eco-consciousness
The final stage was an in-person practical session. Using upcycling principles (reusing waste paper), future culturologists created symbolic objects. The image of a pomegranate, a key allusion to Parajanov's visual world, was the primary result of the creative session. Each item received its own "museum attribution" and conceptual justification.
This internship proved that a modern culturologist is simultaneously a researcher, manager, curator, and creator, capable of transforming theory into viable cultural projects.
24.02.2026
