Author Biography
Maria Maystrovskaya, Doctor of Art History, Professor of the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, research associate of the Department Design of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts. She was born in Moscow and she graduated from Moscow Higher Art and Industrial Design School (ex-Stroganovskaya School), specializing as a decorative artist in interior and furniture design. The two dissertations, master’s and doctoral, were dedicated to the problems of museum expositions design and construction. Worked as a research associate of Russian Institute of Culturology and as a teacher at Stroganov Academy. During her work she prepared over 300 research articles and 6 monographs on the subject of museum problems, museum architecture and museum design, such as Museum as a cultural object. The Art of exposition ensemble, Moscow, 2015 and Museum as a cultural object in the 20th century, Moscow, 2017. She is member of the Russian Union of Designers, the Moscow Union of Artists and of the International Council of Museums (ICOM).