The Zyryansky Museum of Local Lore of the Tomsk Region staged ElarSkan A2-400R

2023: ElarScan A2-400R delivery

The Zyryansky Museum of Local Lore of the Tomsk Region has supplied ElarSKAN A2-400R to digitize especially valuable collections from the main and scientific support fund. This was announced on October 19, 2023 by Elar.

The Zyryan Museum of Local Lore was opened on December 25, 2009, there are 6 exhibition halls, 25 permanent exhibitions. the exposition is based on an ethnographic collection collected in the villages of the district. On the territory of the museum is the museum complex "PROdom," implemented within the framework of the Governor's project "Museum - Growth Point," unique open-air expositions "Museum Outside the Window," a log log log house reflecting the life of peasants of the early 20th century "House of the Siberian," crops and flax are grown.

The main fund of the museum is 5.5 thousand storage units, the auxiliary fund is 3139 storage units. In order to develop social and cultural and educational tourism, the Zyryanskaya Land tourist route has been developed and is being implemented. In 2023, the museum received more than 5 million rubles for equipping equipment, related to the direct activities of municipal museums, within the framework of the federal project "Cultural Environment" of the national project "Culture" for 2022-2024. At the new domestic planetary scanner ElarScan, it is planned to digitize ancient A2-400R, including church, books, old photographs, front-line letters from the Great Patriotic War, damaged archival documents, collections of numismatics, etc.

The museum stores more than 100 letters of genuine front-line letters of fellow countrymen, our fellow villagers, - said the curator of funds Marina Anatolyevna Maryenkova. - The content of the letters allows you to survive the real events of the war, restore the true picture of battles, trace the front-line path of fellow countrymen. Through letters, you can imagine how Soviet soldiers fought than they lived, which helped them resist the enemy and defend their homeland, their family.

The Museum notes that the letters of front-line soldiers are valuable exhibits, have great historical significance for the research, local history activities of the museum.

Letters are stored in special conditions, without the penetration of sunlight and temperature changes. But, it is quite natural that over time the paper becomes dilapidated, on some copies it is difficult to make out the words. Letters must be digitized for further work with funds, for the formation of expositions and exhibitions, - said Marina Anatolyevna Maryenkova.

Scanner ElarScan A2-400R will allow you to carefully and in high resolution scan different types of stitched and embroidered originals of the format to A2, using automatic adjustment for documents of different thickness and texture. The V-shaped cradle is adjustable to the desired format and degree of opening - 90, 120 or 180, allowing you to scan originals up to 15 cm thick and weighing up to 15 kg. With the help of the built-in ON ElarScan, it allows you to process the resulting images and save them to the scanner memory, to an external USB carrier.

The obtained digital copies will be used to register the main fund of the museum in the state catalog of the museum fund of the Russian Federation; in the research and local history work of the museum, to create exhibitions and expositions.