Мобільна цифрова лабораторія
One of the oldest museums in Ukraine, the Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local Lore, founded in the nineteenth century, has joined the Mobile Digital Lab project to digitize exhibits.
The team of the Agency for Cultural Sustainability provided the museum with modern equipment for high-quality digitization. This will allow the museum's unique collections to be preserved in digital format and made more accessible to researchers and visitors.
The focus is on the monuments from the museum's art collection.
"The Zhytomyr Regional Museum of Local Lore has been working on digitizing its collection and new acquisitions for over 15 years. With the beginning of the full-scale invasion, this work has become especially important, because now the task of preserving and securing the collection is in the first place. At the same time, we strive to make our collection more accessible to visitors and researchers.
We have planned to digitize the “most difficult” objects to photograph - paintings and graphics, which are very difficult to process without special equipment.
High-quality images will allow us not only to produce new printed products, such as catalogs or guidebooks, but also to study the issues of attribution and provenance of objects, which is an extremely important area of the museum's research.
A separate important result of this work will be the experience our young people will gain while working with modern equipment. This will allow us to purposefully purchase the necessary equipment with grant funds, based on the practical experience already gained," the Zhytomyr museum workers say.
Those wishing to apply for participation in the project can fill out a questionnaire at https://forms.gle/sB6kergKiLcKQC2d6
The ACURE team made the project possible thanks to the support of international partners: Cultural Emergency Response, ALIPH Foundation, and the Dutch Nationaal Archief.
