UNESCO allocates $1,5 mln to support digitization of Ukrainian cultural heritage
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The UNESCO Extraordinary Heritage Fund has allocated $1.5 million to Ukraine for the digitization of museum collections.
Producing digital copies of objects of cultural value, developing 3D models of cultural sites, or creating digital platforms to store and manage cultural property are effective and efficient ways to protect and preserve cultural heritage.
What is the solution?
UNESCO approved a $1.5 million aid project to Ukraine's Ministry of Culture for the development of digitization tools for cultural heritage.
How does it work?
Relevant agreements were reached thanks to fruitful cooperation between UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, Ukrainian government stated.
Since the outbreak of the full-scale war, UNESCO has been supporting the Ukrainian authorities and cultural institutions to digitize their archives and collections.
The volume of documents to be digitized is daunting. By the end of 2022, about ten percent of all documents had been digitized and, due to the ongoing war, digitization work is progressing
Curators of archival collections face difficulties such as power and heating outages and regular shellings, which sometimes make digitization impossible.
