Information technology and museums: The creation of the State Museum of a New Western Art discussed in Moscow

The Ministry of Culture of Russia hosted the meeting on the creation of the virtual branch of the State Museum of New Western Art.

The main topic of discussion was the implementation of phases of the project recreating the State Museum of New Western Art (GMNZI) in the electronic collection which will include digitized paintings by Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, sculpture and more than a thousand objects of graphics.

Project Manager Catherine Pronicheva said that the site structure is already prepared, currently is running the work on filling the texts and research materials, as well as a considerable work on the digitization.

Author of the idea of revival of the GMNZI - President of the A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Irina Antonova offered to host at the site of the museum a documentary devoted to its history.

The State Museum of New Western Art worked in Moscow from 1923 to 1948. The museum fund is based on nationalized by Soviet authorities paintings from the collections of patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. In the late 1940s, the museum's exhibits were transferred to the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the State Hermitage Museum.