Uzbek, Russian heads of museums discuss prospects of museum development

TASHKENT: The Uzbek-Russian Museum Road-show was held at the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan. The event was organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in order to further strengthen the cultural cooperation of the parties and bring the prospects of the museum direction to a new level by accelerating joint projects between museums. The program of the Museum Road-show began with the opening of the multimedia exhibition of the Museum of Cinema. The presentation included bright expositions of the museum: “Labyrinth Of History”, “Office Of Sergey Eisenstein”, “Vertical”, “Jubilee Project”. The event was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, Cultural Heritage Agencies of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, heads of such leading museums of the Russian Federation as the Tretyakov State Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin, the State Central Museum of Cinema, Russian the Ethnographic Museum, the State Museum of the East, the Prokhorovskoye Pole Museum-Reserve, the Victory Museum, the State Memorial Museum of the Defense and Siege of Leningrad, the Russian State Museum, as well as the heads of the Uzbek state museums and galleries. “Today the heads of the largest museums have arrived from the Russian Federation to present the latest technologies and methods in museums, as well as proposals for joint projects with museums of Uzbekistan. I would like to note that from our side we are ready to accept proposals from our Uzbek colleagues, because such joint projects will enrich both Russian and Uzbek cultural life,” said Natalya Chechel, Deputy Director of the Department of Museums and External Relations of the Ministry of Culture of Russia. As part of the Museum Road show, a round table was also held on modern means and technologies for promoting museum brands. Representatives of the museums of the Russian Federation made presentations about their activities, introduced them to effective tools for attracting public interest to museums and galleries, after which the parties exchanged views on further plans for cooperation. “We have vast experience in adapting houses, apartments and other types of premises into museum objects using the latest technologies. From our side, we are ready to pass on to our Uzbek colleagues our experience in creating, for example, house-museums, as well as share our experience on the correct organization of work with visitors,” said Tatiana Gafar, Deputy Director of the Tretyakov Gallery Director of the Russian Ethnographic Museum Yulia Kupina shared the existing trainings and courses for the training of qualified personnel in the museum business and expressed her readiness to receive colleagues from Uzbekistan: “We are especially pleased that our museum actively participated in the creation of a very important publication“ Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan ”in the collections of the world. We hope that in the next year 2022 there will be even more such joint projects. In addition, we want and are ready to offer our sites for traveling exhibitions and expositions of museums in Uzbekistan, especially works of contemporary art in your country.” The cultural heritage of Uzbekistan is unusually rich. Here, in Uzbek museums, there are incredible and unimaginable beauty archaeological materials that are stored from the Neolithic era to the Timurid time. I want to note that the art and ethnography of Uzbekistan is a huge field for study, because this region was a place where a variety of cultural traditions intersect and it was here that decorative and applied art was formed.–said the director of the Karakalpak State Art Museum named after I.V. Savitsky Tigran Mkrtychev During the discussion of the projects, the director of the Gallery of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan Kamola Akilova spoke about new museums in Uzbekistan: “Over the past four years, 15 new museums have been opened in Uzbekistan, which have entered the system of the Cultural Heritage Agency, and new museums have been opened that are in the system of the Academy of Sciences. Currently, we are preparing an exhibition for Moscow, for the opening of the pavilion of Uzbekistan at VDNKh and for this exhibition we have prepared the book “Uzbekistan– the crossroads of the civilization of science and cultures.” As a result of the event, the parties agreed to develop a special “roadmap” to expand cooperation between museums and implement a two-year project “Intermuseum Conference”, which will be held in Russia and Uzbekistan. Within the framework of this project, representatives of the museum community will be able to discuss the problems and tasks of developing cooperation between the museums of the two countries, exchange experience and methodological developments in preserving the presentation of exhibits, the latest technologies and digitalization of the museum sphere, as well as holding master classes.