“An electronic register of museum values was launched in Ukraine: what will it change? In Kyiv, an electronic register of the Museum Fund of Ukraine was presented, to which more than 300 museums have already joined.”, — write on: unn.ua
The global goal of creating the register of the Museum Fund of Ukraine is to collect data on the museum fund of Ukraine in a single place and make them available to the public and specialists. To date, more than 300 museums out of 652 have already joined the electronic register.
The conference held in the capital was the final event of the project “Implementation of the electronic accounting system of the Museum Fund of Ukraine”, which is being implemented in accordance with the memorandum between the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Center for Cultural Studies and the International Solidarity Fund, with the support of the Government of the Republic of Poland.
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Anastasia Bondar, Deputy Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications for Digital Development, Digital Transformations and Digitalization. She noted that at a time when Ukraine is facing not only physical aggression, but also attempts to destroy Ukrainian identity, culture is also a battlefield.
“Russia doesn’t just destroy our monuments – it uses culture as a weapon. Stealing artifacts, including them in Russian registers, promoting “common history”, changing and distorting historical facts – these are signs of cultural genocide, an attempt to erase Ukrainian identity. Electronic accounting system The museum fund, which we present today, is our contribution to preservation and restoration to return what was stolen,” said the Deputy Minister.
Digital transformation aims to make Ukraine the most convenient country in the world — both for citizens and for the cultural community, the ministry emphasizes.
“We are building a system that is accessible, understandable and modern. At the same time, we are implementing it not only for ourselves, but also as part of a global initiative to protect cultural values,” added Anastasia Bondar.