Person
Dr. Dmitry Pertsev
Organization
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Position
Founder of the IT department
Has been working in museum field since
1957
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

Dr. Dmitry G. Pertsev was the founder of the IT department at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia. He talks about the main features of collections management systems for art museums and the first professional museum IT community in Russia.

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Questions

  • Who did you want to be growing up?
  • Where did you study?
  • What was your attitude to museums before you became a museum professional?
  • 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?
  • Where were the first computers in your museum?
  • What do you think is going to be the future or ICTs in the museum field?