The article focuses on the analysis of historiography in the field of memory sudies related to museums and museum case. In this context, theories and concepts of Russian and foreign museologists, historians, philosophers, sociologists, which affecting this issue in one form or another, are considered. The article shows both achievements and those research difficulties and unresolved issues that are relevant for scientific studies in this area of memory studies. At the theoretical level and in the framework of case studies, various mechanisms of the influence of museum space on the cultural and communicative memory of society, and also problems of falsification of history through museums, the importance of museums and museum politics in overcoming public amnesia in relation to objects of social memory, and other aspects related with the role of museums in historical politics and public history were studied. At the same time, in modern historiography there are no systematic studies devoted to the study of the r