Principles of formation of the resource base of the students' artistic aesthetic education on the example of the art collection of the university art museum

After studying the experience of the university museums work including South Ural State University Art Museum the author points out the modern principles of the art collections composing. Basic principles of the art estimation, system, historicism, efficiency and functioning openness of collections, introduction of the new informational technologies and information-resource development allow forming the funds, promoting the completeness of collections, the accurate stocktaking of exhibits and active research work at the modern level. In perspective the typology of monuments will extend according to the problems of reflection and representation of the art processes taking place in the South Ural and in the Russian art.