Short description of important scientific result: Gushchina E.G. studies questions of ethnographic museology, history of science, traditional culture and preservation of material and cultural heritage. The main conclusions found reflection more than in 50 publication, including 5 articles in the magazines recommended to VAK, 4 articles in magazin esentering bases of citing of Scopus and Web of Science. The monograph "Ethnographic museum of the Kazan university: history of formation and main stages of development" was result of the done work.