More than 300 museum artefacts digitised in Mykolaiv: they can be seen in an online museum and book

Digital collection of the museum, photos: MY ART platform

In Mykolaiv, 312 museum artefacts have been digitised and are available for viewing in the online museum.

This was announced live today, 1 December, by Viktor Sikalenko, head of the municipal institution «Mykolaiv Development Agency», according to NikVesti.

«We continue to work on digitising our material heritage. So far, 312 museum artefacts have been digitised and presented in the online museum created as part of the project. Some of them have also been published in a book that can be seen not only in museums and libraries of Mykolaiv, but also in national and regional libraries of Ukraine,» said Viktor Sikalenko.

It should be noted that at the end of October, Mykolaiv hosted a presentation of the catalogue album «Digital Collection of the Museum. Paintings». The publication has collected more than 200 illustrations of works by Ukrainian artists of the twentieth century — from classical to southern Ukrainian school masters — kept in the Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum named after Vereshchahin and the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local Lore.

The catalogue includes 23 works from the collection of the regional art museum, including works by Andrii Antoniuk, Mykhailo Ozernyi, Vitalii Shevchenko, Oleksandr Rittich, Leonid Inglesi, and Volodymyr Yakubovskyi.

The digitised painting by Leonid Blinov «Ships in the Harbour», came from the Odesa Art Gallery

The digitisation process

In 2024, it became known that more than 1000 old postcards and photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from the collections of the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local Lore would be digitised in Mykolaiv. 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 digitisation project is being implemented by the MY ART Platform in partnership with the municipal institution «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.