Rare books of the Bakhrushinsky Museum are digitized on domestic scanners

The implementation of the system on the ELAR PlanScan platform was completed in October 2011.

2023: Supply of PowerScan A0 ART and PlanScan A2

Two domestic scanning complexes delivered to the Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum as part of the import substitution program in IT will help digitize the Bakhrushinsky collection. Elar announced this on April 21, 2023. It includes more than 1.5 million exhibits, including sketches of costumes and sets by scenography masters, stage costumes of great actors, objects of decorative and applied art, programs and posters of performances, photographs, portraits and rare editions. Contactless scanning will create all the conditions for the safe creation of digital twins of priceless works of art.

PowerScan A0 ART is designed for translation into electronic form of works of art, large-format documents, various volumetric objects. The scanner allows you to digitize originals with reprographic quality larger than the A0 format and up to 20 cm thick. With the new ELAR PlanScan A2, you can perform high-quality streaming digitization of documents of any physical state - a contactless scanning method helps to create electronic copies of even time-damaged documents, including those with a dense root.

Five scanners have already been installed in the stock departments of the Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum for April 2023.

Digitization, thanks to which an insurance fund of high-quality copies is formed, makes it possible, first of all, to solve the problem of forming, in accordance with Russian law, a single accounting document of the museum fund of the Russian Federation - the State Catalog of the Russian Federation. Digital images are stored in JPEG formats (for upload to the KAMIS program and to the State Catalog) and TIFF (for use in exhibition projects and publications).

In addition, the formation of high-quality electronic copies creates the conditions for a larger study of the objects included in the famous collection of the Bakhrushin Museum. Digitization makes them available to the largest circle of users - from scientists, publishers and organizers of exhibition projects to students and lovers of the history of Russian theater art, including visitors to social networks, portals of the Collection-online, "Theater Museums of Russia" and "All Chekhov."

2022: Project to digitize valuable museum collections completed

The corporation's specialists ELAR announced on October 19, 2022 the completion of a large fund project to digitization for. State Central Theater Museum named after A. A. Bakhrushin 21,146 originals from 26 funds were transferred to electronic - rare and especially valuable documents of the late XVIII - first half of the XX century acquired their digital copies.

Cooperation between ELAR Theatrical and the A.A. Bakhrushin Museum on the digitization of exhibits of various funds has been going on for several years. During a large-scale project in 2022, the most popular, often used funds containing rare documents were digitized.

First of all, these are the documents of Foundation 1, collected by the founder of the museum Alexei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin, his son Yuri Alekseevich and documents reflecting the history of the Bakhrushin Museum. The documents of the United Fund of the First Russian Actors F.G. and G.G. Volkov and P.A. Plavilshchikov (F.56), a collection of materials on the management of imperial (until 1917) and state (since 1917) theaters (F.486), a collection of congratulatory and welcoming addresses containing rare beauty real works of art. (F. 720). In addition, the documents of such famous directors as E.V. Vakhtangov (F. 48), Vs.E. Meyerhold (F. 166), K.S. Stanislavsky (F. 263), A.A. Gorsky (F. 77), as well as the brilliant poet and playwright A.S. Griboedov (F. 78), actor and artist M.P. Chekhov (F. 376) and many other valuable collections, told Lada Vadimovna Mitroshenkova, head of the archive and manuscript department, Ph.D.

Electronic copies of reference quality were created using professional scanning ELAR equipment, which provided careful contactless scanning for even the most dilapidated and damaged time documents. The obtained electronic copies will be used in the widest possible way - for registering items in the state accounting system - the State Catalog of the Museum Fund, RUSSIAN FEDERATION publishing on the museum's website in the "Online Collections" section, for the work of researchers, publishing in electronic and paper editions, as well as for issuance to permanent exhibitions and exhibitions both inside and outside the museum.

2013: Digitization of account cards

October 23, 2013 ELAR Corporation announced the continuation of work on the digitization of account cards of the Museum. A.A. Bakhrushin.

The museum accounting system operates on the basis of AIS KAMIS. To ensure its filling by volley input, you need to translate account documentation into electronic form, index records.

At the next stage of the project, account cards were scanned, indexed, as well as previously digitized inventory books, thereby creating more than 72 thousand accounts.

Digitization work was carried out on the territory of the museum on high-speed documentary scanners of the ELAR SCAMAX brand. Then ELAR specialists conducted a retroconversion of accounting documents. As a result, an Access database was created with links to symbols for later loading into the KAMIS system.

2015: Tens of thousands of photographs and documents digitized at the A. A. Bakhrushin Theater Museum

To carry out the project to digitize images and documents, a technological platform was deployed on the territory of the museum, equipped with scanning equipment of the "PlanScan" brand of the "C" series. About fifty thousand photographs of the XIX-XX centuries were scanned: pictures of varying degrees of preservation, including dilapidated ones, were translated into electronic form from the front and reverse sides. Seven thousand pages of manuscripts and drawings, also dated to the past and the century before last, have been digitally translated. When scanning the "C" series at PlanScan, the harmful effect on the originals is completely excluded due to the contactless method of digitization and the absence of exposure to IR and UV radiation. The scanner embedded software for automatic cleaning of images from background garbage, leveling scans, etc. According to Evgeny Mokeev, a leading expert on working with cultural institutions of ELAR Corporation, "the company has been cooperating with the Museum named after A.A. Bakhrushin since 2004. During this time, many projects were carried out to create electronic information resources in the museum. Accounting documentation, photographs, theater programs and posters, manuscripts, other exhibits and documents from the museum collection were digitized. "

Within the framework of the project, a working layout of the system for recording a collection of photographs and archival and handwritten documents from the museum funds was created. After scanning and processing, the finished array of electronic images was recorded on hard drives for further loading into the Kamis AIS information system.

2016: Alice Koonen's letters digitized

11,000 pages of documents of the archival and manuscript department of the theater museum named after A.A. Bakhrushin. These are real monuments of the history of the domestic theater: drawings, manuscripts, books, scores, letters, congratulatory addresses dated to the XIX-XX centuries. Among the materials are documents related to the history of the famous Chamber Theater, created by the stage master, outstanding director A. Ya. Tairov in 1914. Correspondence with departments, departments of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR, poster of a tour in Austria in May 1930; congratulatory letters to the leading actress of the theater A. G. Koonen, dedicated to her poems.