Budget: 980,440 hryvnias.
Creation of a digital collection of 20th-century paintings from the collections of the Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum and the Mykolaiv Regional Local History Museum, which were previously inaccessible to the general public, as well as promotion of innovation and digital technologies in the field of culture, and support for the decolonisation of Ukrainian art.
“This album is not just a catalogue, but a way to show how much interesting stuff is stored in the archives. After all, today the world’s attention is focused on Mykolaiv, and it is not only people or architecture that should tell about the city, but also works of art that shape its image and identity,” said cultural development expert Evgen Gomonjuk during the presentation of the album.
Half of the album’s print run has already been distributed to art and local history museums, art libraries, and educational institutions. The rest was given to partners and museums participating in the project: the Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum and the Mykolaiv Regional Local History Museum, as well as representatives of cultural and educational institutions in Mykolaiv who were invited to the presentation.
Serhii Rosliakov, director of the art museum, noted:
“The digitisation of museum collections opens up new space for exhibition. And anyone who wishes to can familiarise themselves with what is stored in museums. This is a new stage in the development of museum work!”
Some of the new digitised works are already available online — look for the links in the comments. An interesting bonus — we have “brought some of the works to life”, so you can watch a short video.