Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet in Mykolaiv starts digitising shipbuilding history archives
- Anna Hakman
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19:59, 11 March, 2025
The Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet starts digitising archival materials on the history of shipbuilding and photos: Agency for Cultural SustainabilityThe Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet in Mykolaiv is starting to digitise archives containing materials on the history of shipbuilding and the development of the Black Sea Fleet.
According to «Agency for Cultural Sustainability», the digitisation will take place as part of the «Mobile Digital Lab» project.
It is noted that the museum team will work for a month and a half with modern equipment to digitally preserve several dozen maritime collections, books on maritime navigation and other pre-revolutionary old prints.
«An important part of the museum's collection is written memorabilia: rare publications of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries on the history of shipbuilding and the fleet, a collection of «maritime collections» published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a large array of documents, drawings, maps and plans», the statement said.
The Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet is starting to digitise archival materials on the history of shipbuilding and photos: Agency for Cultural Sustainability
The Museum of Shipbuilding and Fleet starts digitising archival materials on the history of shipbuilding, photo: Agency for Cultural SustainabilityIn turn, Tetiana Mitkovska, head of the Shipbuilding and Fleet Museum, said that the digitised material will be available to researchers.
«The digitised material will be available to a wide range of researchers for a comprehensive study of the history of the Northern Black Sea region from ancient times to the present, the history of the development of the navy and civilian fleets, shipping and hydrographic research in the South of Ukraine,» she said.
The digitisation process
In Mykolaiv, more than 1,000 old postcards and photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the collections of the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local Lore are being digitised. These are unique street photos of the old city, photographs from the family archives of famous Mykolaiv families, and documented scenes of various historical events in the life of the region.
The project to digitise paper exhibits is being implemented by the MY ART Platform in partnership with «and the Mykolaiv Development Agency» with financial support from the Stabilisation Fund for Culture and Education of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine.
Employees of the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local Lore note that the museum's collection includes more than 390,000 items. And this is only a part of the main fund. The storage group for printed and handwritten paper documents and photographs includes tens of thousands of items. And all of them need to be digitised.