In the real edition history of forming and development of specialist in museum management idea is first recreated in Russia that is presented as logically and consistently developing process. The documents and materials collected in collection give an idea about history of museum business in a country, evolutional and destructive processes in life of museum and in home музееведении almost for three hundred years. The commented on self-controls is plugged in edition from labours on a home specialist in museum management idea, belonging to the feather of a few generations of the Russian cultural workers, and also normatively-legal acts of Russia and documents on the problems of maintenance of историко-культурного heritage.Edition is addressed to the teachers and students of humanitarian institutions of higher learning, museum workers, specialists in museum management, historians of culture.