Keyword: «civilizational challenges»

The article raises problems related to scenarios for the future of the humanities. Attention is paid to the role of cultural studies, as well as to the practices of cultural institutions responsible for the quality development of free time by a person. The place and role of digital humanities in the system of sciences, the cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary development of modern science, which is strengthening in the historical and cultural per-spective, as well as the mission of humanitarian training of specialists, which determines the system of values and meanings that the society of the coming future is constructing, are considered.