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People's Artist of Kazakhstan Abylkhan Kasteev was a subtle connoisseur of history, culture, customs and traditions, which was clearly reflected in his work. Therefore, the numerous works of the artist today cause not only artistic and aesthetic interest, but also scientific, as they represent a huge layer of pictorial material on the history, traditional culture and way of life of Kazakhs in a wide chronological range. This article gives a brief analysis of the historiography of A. Kasteev's works, especially scientific publications and publications of the Soviet period, when art, including visual art, was viewed from the standpoint of socialist realism in accordance with universal Soviet internationalization. Nevertheless, it is shown that A. Kasteev's watercolors represent historical and ethnographic sources in the knowledge of cultural and historical reality in the life of the Kazakh people, the specific features of traditional culture preserved in the conditions of radical changes in the social system in the 20th century. The study was based on the works of Abylkhan Kasteev, performed by him during the scientific ethnographic expedition of the Central Museum of Kazakhstan (1947-1948) in several regions of Kazakhstan as a photographer and artist. In the study, the methods of historicism were used, that is, the analysis of the artist's creation of watercolor works in connection with specific historical conditions, as well as hermeneutics - the interpretation of watercolors as visual texts, in order to understand the ethnosocial life of the Kazakh society of the mid-20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Collections of the museum can represent the culture of the society in the early ages. The collections preserved by museum are presented through exhibition so that the people in the next generation can learn from them. Yet the learning process through museum still faces many problems, such as: There are so many collections in a museum but the information to each collection is still too general; the room used for exhibition is so limited that not all the collections can be displayed; the collections might be damaged or lost; the displayed collections seem less meaningful; and the exhibition is less interactive because of the passive role of the visitors in it. This research tries to solve those problems by designing a cyber exhibition on virtual museum. Here, the cyber exhibition is developed as a complement of the exhibition held in the real museum, not as the replacement to it. The implementation of this design has been tested to several users. The results show that the users get different and more interactive experiences and more detailed informations compared to what they get when visiting the physical museum. The cyber exhibition can also add values to the collections so that they become more meaningful. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]