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Ideas for Museums: a Biography of Museum Computing. Sergey Cherkalin
*English subtitles are provided*
Ideas for Museums: a Biography of Museum Computing is a research project about the history of museum computerization. The idea is to collect interviews with museum professionals who were/are working on implementing digital technologies in everyday museum practice.
Sergey Cherkalin is the Director of the Rybinsk State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum Preserve. In 2000 this museum was the first one in Russia to publish its collections online.
Sergey Cherkalin talks about how he moved in his career from an engineer to a museum director, argues about museum management in a small Russian city, and describes the role of ICTs in the Rybinsk museum.