Information technology and culture: The written heritage of P. I. Tchaikovsky to be digitized

The P. I. Tchaikovsky Museum-Estate in Votkinsk (the Udmurt Republic) within the framework of the project of restoration of objects of the museum, timed to the 175th anniversary of the birth of the Great Russian composer, will digitize his writing heritage. To digitize it was bought a planetary scanner ElarSCAN series A2.

The fund "Written source" of the Tchaikovsky Museum-Estate includes more than 10 thousand items - rare books and printed music, manuscripts and printed documents. They are works of the composer, a collection of books on Russian French and German times of Votkinsk childhood Pyotr Ilyich, household lists, dated 1837 year, containing information about the historical and residential environments of the older composer. The museum also houses a collection of works by staging Tchaikovsky in Russian theater of second half of the XX century. The earliest edition of the book fund "Written source" refers to 1626.

The equipment is designed to a gentle digitization of historical and rare museum exhibits.