FCC's museums collections can be consulted on the internet

The Technical Cooperation Agreement signed between the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba and the State Department of Culture for the adhesion of municipal museums to the State Museum System already presents the first results.. In January the process of migration of collections of collections will begin to a new system that will enable the public consultation of works of art over the internet.

On 9 January, Librarians and technicians from the Municipal Art Museum begins the training offered by the Coordination of the State Museum System to transfer information to Pregamum, which is the cataloging and storage program used by state museums. The system was developed by the Catholic University of Paraná and is currently used in more than 424 institutions and 8 Thousand Libraries throughout Brazil.

The Municipal Art Museum has a total of 3.830 cataloged works. Following, All other collections of the Curitiba Cultural Foundation will also be transferred to the new platform: Museum of Engraving (2.809 works), Museum of photography (1.496 images), Museum of sacred art (1.580 items), In addition to all items from the House of Memory Documentation and Research Center, of the gibiteca of Curitiba, of the conservatory of MPB and the cinemateca, in a total of more than 700 thousand items, between books, documents, photographs, posters, comics, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and Movies.

According to the Director of Cultural Heritage of the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, Rima Azim, PGAMUM is the appropriate tool for cataloging and making available the Cultural Foundation's collection, Given the great diversity of formats and supports. “The use of the system is free for the Cultural Foundation, But the most important thing is that it will allow the population's access to the information of municipal collections ”, diz marili.

The Cooperation Agreement was signed on the day 6 December by the President of the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba, Marcos Cordiolli, and by the Secretary of State for Culture, João Luiz Fiani. In addition to the use of parchumum, The agreement aims to promote the articulation between existing museums in the state, develop technical assistance programmes, promote human resources training program, encourage cultural activities, promote research, inventory, registration, monitoring and listing of works of art, and maintain the Exchange with national and international entity.