Person
Alexander Dremaylov
Organization
The State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia
Position
Head of IT department
Has been working in museum field since
1983
The recording date of the interview
December 19, 2012

Quotes

And it is a great achievement of ours that, with the support of the Ford Foundation, we have been able to digitalize them all and make 45000 items public through our online catalogue.

Text of the interview

Alexander Dremaylov is the Head of IT department in the State Historical Museum (Moscow). He tells the story of his work for the Kremlin Museums where he had built his entire department from scratch, and then he started working for the State Historical Museum. Dremaylov talks about his current projects within the museum.

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Questions

  • Who did you want to be growing up?
  • Where did you study?
  • When and how did you start working in the museum field?
  • In which museum department did you start your career?
  • Could you describe how your career was evolving?
  • What was your idea of what ICTs could do when you were only beginning to work with them? Which dreams did you have?
  • When you first encountered ICTs did you feel that they were necessary in a museum, appropriate, important?
  • Which role do ICTs play in your museum today?
  • What do you think is going to be the future or ICTs in your museum? Any ideas about the future?