Dmitry Medvedev: We do not know what is stored in museums
 

D. Medvedev: We do not know what is stored in museums

  Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to create a single electronic catalog of cultural values. "We do not know what is in museums, and the vast number of exhibits like a cow tongue licked," - said the head of state at a meeting of the State Council Presidium and the Presidency of the Council on the Arts in Veliky Novgorod.

He stressed that "the later loss" should not write off the actions of the Bolsheviks in the last century. Dmitry Medvedev recalled that some time ago, he led the Commission to verify the preservation of cultural values. "I would like to see the commission brought the work to the end not even in order to punish crooks, but to understand what is in our hands," - said the president.

The work will create "a single electronic catalog, which should be available to any citizen of Russia," the radio station "Mayak". "This should be an open pass-through system, it can not spare the money, as in the protection system," - said the head of state.

Also, speaking at the State Council, Russia's president called for a national internet portal, featuring the cultural heritage of the country, and to develop tourist routes to the historical monuments.

New special centralized Internet portal should be interesting, made using the latest technology, the president said, noting the large number of poorly made public sites.

Dmitry Medvedev also invited to search for new unconventional sources of funding for the maintenance of cultural institutions, including reasonable to attract businesses and to cooperate with other countries.
 

18 September 2009.

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I think that is long overdue. For example, I wanted to know whether the artist N?, In the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, but no information could not get into any gallery anywhere else, this should not be. There is no handbook, no information.

buy a multi-volume scholarly catalog of the State Tretyakov Gallery and read. For volumes 11 and I think happened. For sale in kiosks GTG and CHA.

intart1, the Soviet period there.
Yet printed.

  This should be right in the gallery. go to the monitor located at the entrance to collect Artists, and receive full information: how many rabot.kakie work, size, etc.. In shops no catalogs about artists of the Soviet period, something that would have to find something to scour the secondhand otdelam.i you will find scant information that is yellowed with age, but Van Gogh, Titian, and complete enough, even in excess.

And the Internet, too, like all museums in the world.

I already think that there will be names that were there. because if so far they have not published, then surely here it is unclean.

I you more to say. I privately Officer GTG reported that in general the Soviet period will not print.

The need for this is long overdue. This applies to museum collections, and to the library, and to archives. After all, as far as I know, these materials are not only not available on the Internet, but did not digitized, which has long been done in Europe and America.
      Although what I say! Condition museum and library collections is that many materials are not even processed, and therefore not put into scientific circulation. It is also clear that this situation is fertile for theft.

Like all the same it is good to be state officials - can create, ever to lead or participate in various committees. Starting from the fight against corruption and the appearance of locusts in parts of the artic circle due to global warming and to commission
an enabling environment for attracting business, in light of the problem of repair of the roof and whitewash the ceiling in the museum Taruhanska.
And yet, from year to year, money is only enough for the presentation and content of the commissions.
In Odessa, on the local and regional level nasozdavali a lot of commissions after the theft from the museum. And go at a press conference in limousines. And to find $ 20 thousand for the installation of alarm failed.