The faculty of political education of O. Potebna Kharkiv institute of public education: foundation, development, prospects of musealization.

Goal. The purpose of the proposed research is to highlights the creation, functioning, reorganization of the Faculty of Political Education of the O. Potebnia Kharkiv Institute of Public Education, the prospects for its museumization. Research methodology. The research methodology consists of the principles of historicism, systematicity, objectivity, comprehensiveness and integrity in combination with methods of analysis and synthesis, historical-comparative, historical-typological and problem-chronological. Scientific novelty. For the first time, a comprehensive research of the Faculty of Political Education as a structural unit of the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education was conducted: the reasons for its creation and reorganization were identified, the structure, curriculum, and practical training bases were analyzed; a list of graduates of 1929 was presented. Conclusions. The Faculty of Political Education at the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education was founded in 1925. Its main function was to train specialists in political education of a wide profile, however, specialization took place within the framework of the school-course, book-library and anti-religious profile. The unpreparedness of the institute for the emergence of a new structural unit affected the material and technical support of the faculty during its existence in 1925-1929. The orderliness of the staff, the specifics of the training of higher education applicants, and the provision of premises led to the reorganization of the faculty into a separate Institute of Political Education. Its successor is the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, whose employees began the process of museumizing the history of the institution of higher education.