I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

art therapy practices, museum space, culture and leisure activity, music therapy, psychoneurological disorders.

While implementing musical-educational programs (lecture courses) in museums and galleries of Kazan, the author elaborated and introduced recreational and health-improving practices promoting satisfaction of the interests and needs of the public. The programs were implemented with a view of developing musical-esthetic culture of a personality and based on the conception of the healing properties of art. The analysis of methodological literature in the sphere of cultural-leisure activity and musical art revealed the most efficient forms, methods and techniques, enabling to achieve the work objective. The review of foreign practices in the researched sphere contributed to defining a museum as a cultural-leisure establishment characterised by opportunities for implementation of recreational and health-improving practices at various age groups. The research materials can be of interest for educators, methodologists, and students of educational establishments providing programs in social and cultural, cultural and leisure, musical art, and medicine spferes.

Камалова Гульнур Рафисовна – преподаватель кафедры музыкально-инструментального исполнительства Казанского государственного института культуры, г. Казань, Россия; e-mail: gulnurrk88@mail.ru