Ministry of Culture of Russia has summed up the museum's validation

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Ministry of Culture of Russia has summed up the museum's test

MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. Large-scale testing of the museum fund of the Russian Federation has identified shortage of 24,5 thousand items, brought in on Wednesday during "government hour" final data by Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev.

"From 1920 to 2009, ie for 89 years kidnapped and is being sought MIA 24,5 thousand things" - he said.

Governmental Commission for inspection was established in 2006 after loud theft of works of art from the Hermitage, and during that time the working group has been tested 1.887 thousand federal, state and municipal museums.

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According to Avdeev, ever museum fund of the country has not been studied so thoroughly - check parameters include not only the conversion of all the exhibits, but also their status, accounting forms, and more.

"Now we know about the museum fund more than it has ever been before" - said the minister.

According to Avdeev, including lost no masterpiece, but among the reasons - violation of accounting standards, the sale of items from the museum's fund in 1920, many of which have not been written off, due to the destruction of poor storage - is, first and foremost, concerns the paper exhibits and loss after the collapse of the Soviet Union. For example, the Music Fund are not counted 17 instruments - cellos, violins and violas, which are temporarily issued a republican musicians, and then were not returned.

Among the biggest losses - 5,5 thousands of negatives from the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev and 14,000 artifacts from the National Museum of Glinka - newspaper clippings, pictures and tickets - all that in 1946-47 he was transferred from the Library. Lenin.

No shortages have been recorded in the 25 museums under federal control, among them - the Kremlin Museums, Tsarskoe Selo, Peterhof and Museum Kulikovo Pole.

Checking the museum has identified, however, not only losses - were found over 100,000 items discounted. This happened in particular due to improper cancellation of the artifacts in a museum and not setting it on the record in another. Thus, in one place now reveal the slack, and in the other - on the contrary.

According to Avdeev, to preserve the museum's need more than 129 billion rubles a year, while the whole culture is now allocated 89 billion rubles.


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Russia spends a loan of $ 100 million from the IBRD to build depository

MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. loan of $ 100 million, attracted by Russia from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to finance the project conservation and utilization of cultural heritage in the country, will go to construction of the museum depository, told reporters on Wednesday, Deputy Culture Minister Andrei Gagarin.

Under the decree, posted on Tuesday, in a database of government documents, the loan will be engaged for 17 years, including a six-year grace period.

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"Part of these funds will be used to develop tourism infrastructure, part - the restoration of objects, but the most significant - for building the museum depository", - said Gagarin.

According to him, the project is also implemented through the federal budget, and it involved several areas in the north-west Russia, including Leningrad, Novgorod, Tver and Pskov. It is planned that after all the necessary arrangements for them will be a comfortable long-haul travel route.

The problem with the book depository - one of the hottest in the industry. Collections of the museums are constantly replenished, and facilities for their storage can no longer provide the necessary conditions for the safety of exhibits. For example, check Rosokhrankultura in 2009 and first half of 2010 identified nearly 9,000 violations of the conditions of storage of exhibits. Earlier, Culture Minister Alexander Avdeev said that the store rooms, equipped to international standards, there are 5-6 museums in the country.

Office took up the urgent issue in detail: another program in the regions are going to build a common depository for several regional museums. In the period from 2012 to 2016 will be eight of these reservists. The program is currently developing a regional network of depository is being coordinated with the Ministry of Finance.


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Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will create a network of regional depository

MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. Ministry of Culture is planning to build a regional depository, which would have housed the exhibits of several regional museums, said on Wednesday during the "government hour" the head of department Alexander Avdeev.

"This program is currently being coordinated with the Ministry of Finance: We'll do a single repository for several museums in the region, while planning to build eight" - explained the Minister.

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Implement the program is planned for 4 years - from 2012 to 2016.

The problem with the book depository - one of the hottest in the industry. Collections of the museums are constantly replenished, and facilities for their storage can no longer provide the necessary conditions for the safety of exhibits. For example, check Rosokhrankultura in 2009 and first half of 2010 identified nearly 9,000 violations of the conditions of storage of exhibits. Earlier, the minister said that the store rooms, equipped to international standards, there are 5-6 museums in the country.


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Half of the museum's digitization of the Russian Federation in 2020

MOSCOW, March 2 - RIA Novosti, Svetlana Yankina. Ministry of Culture after extensive testing was engaged in the digitization of museum fund of the Russian Federation to create an electronic catalog, said in Moscow on Wednesday the head of department Alexander Avdeev.

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"The Museum collection includes more than 73 million items, and we plan to include in the electronic catalog of more than half - about 40 million by 2020" - told the Minister.

According to him, work is already underway - for last year were digitized 1.5 million items, and for 2011 expect to convert into electronic form another 5 million. Such a union catalog that would unite all the museums, never did.

These databases have been made before, but each museum carried them on its standards. Now, however, said the minister, adopted a single standard of photography and digitization artifacts.

In the future, based on this catalog will be to organize a virtual tour.

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