A new model of management in cultural institutions as an innovative resource of cultural policy

The article shows how in the conditions of socio-cultural modernization one of the resources of cultural policy can be the creative potential of cultural institutions, in particular children's music school. The author reveals the mechanisms of the project method as one of the elements of "creative management" is widely implemented in the modern practice of cultural institutions. The paper draws attention to such social groups that are leaders in the development of creative initiatives, innovative practices, becoming the leading link of the new cultural policy.