The article focuses on capabilities of museum pedagogy (regulated by the Federal State Educational Standard of General Education)as part of the culture
edifying paradigm aimed tocreate a new individual of culture able to perceive personal responsibility for universal cultural and human values, that
enable existence, unity, and evolution of humanity and provide the dialog of cultures, epochs, and nations.
The article reveals the importance of artistic, literary, and epistolary heritage of a famous Russian artist, public figure, philosopher, and historian of culture
� Nicholas Roerich. Artistic heritage of Nicholas Roerich is of particular relevance for modern education, as it points out the spiritual unity of sacred
images and symbols of the East and the West, sets international humanitarian and moral values, helps to comprehend the uniqueness of Russian culture
and cultures of the East.
The author surveys cultural and educational space of the Museum n.a. Nicholas Roerich as part of the complex educational model: the museum educational
Program �Dialog between cultures of the East and the West�. Mastering this Program will contribute to: building the basis of museum culture,
evolving personal need for interaction with works of art andartefacts in the educational space of the Museum; creating emotional and axiological attitude
towards artistic heritage of Nicholas Roerich; accumulating individual cultural experience based on realization of universal human values and
cultural symbols; developing historical consciousness based on understanding particular cultural and social evolutional milestones in the history of
humanity, which are of evolutionary importance for the future unity of mankind; establishing respectful and caring attitude towards both Russian and
Eastern religious and cultural traditions; creating an individual worldview as a system of universal cultural, spiritual and moral values.
Formation of the Competences of Social Interaction at the Technical University