The research goals are studying and evaluation application of Personal Meaning Maps Methodology in context of museums visitors’ and university students’ learning, competences and perception development. The study was conducted within the course "Museum Information Systems", implemented under the Program "Applied Informatics in Arts and Humanities..." of Saint Petersburg State University. Thirty-five third-year bachelors (19–22 years-old) took part in the experiment.
The PMM performed the following functions: a methodology for assessing of the development of students' knowledge when studying a course during a semester (4 months), when visiting an exhibition in a multimedia center of a Russian museum (2 hours), and also as a tool for implementing a comparative analysis of the obtained results
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the collected data showed that PMMs allow studying new knowledge of specialists in the field of Digital Humanities.
Keywords: Personal Meaning Maps, Digital Humanities, Blended Learning
1. INTRODUCTION