Ministry of Culture
Overview
Main functions of the ministry:
- regulation of relations in the sphere of culture (art, cinema, protection and usage of historical and cultural heritage);
- support of museums, culture, art and national artistic trades institutions;
- preservation, revival and development of traditional crafts of the Vologda Region;
- management of service of libraries.
One of the primary functions of the Ministry of Culture is the preservation of the archives of Government Ministries and Departments and related administrative units, and this involves the selection of those records having permanent value, the arrangement and description of archives, and the provision of a reference service to scholars, to Government Ministries and Departments and to the general public. As the government's recordkeeping authority, the Ministry works to ensure effective information management and acts as the official guardian of Vologda Oblast's public archives.
The holdings of the archives and records service comprise records in a variety of media. This includes paper-based textual records, electronic records as well as audio-visual, photographic and cartographic material. Governmental bodies produce vast amounts of administrative records.
As an executive body with diverse functions, the Ministry carries out its mission through a number of subordinate offices and institutions. There are state and municipal archives in the Vologda Oblast.
The main functions of the Ministry and its subordinate institutions in the sphere of records activities include:
- to collect material in or about the Vologda Oblast;
- to preserve the archival heritage of the Vologda Oblast;
- to make the archival heritage accessible to people.
News
Vologda will host IV International Folk Crafts Festival “Voice of Crafts” on June 22-25, 2017.
In the framework of a 2 weeks tour throughout Russia, Bjorn Solli on guitar, Jon Wikan on drums, Natalia Skvortsova on piano and Philip Meshcheryakov on double bass performed for Vologda’s music-lovers.
Intermuseum 2017 International Museum Festival is taking place on May 25-29 at Manège Central Exhibition Hall. The structure of the Intermuseum includes: expositions from various Russian and international museums, competitions, business and cultural events, including a program for children.
160 lace-works with images of flowers and plants have already been sent by the participants of the festival. III International Lace Festival VITA LACE will be devoted to ecology and environment.
The U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg decided to plant American musical seeds in Vologda seven years ago with the help of its Russian partners at the Vologda Oblast Government, Department of Culture and Tourism of the Vologda Region, and the Vologda State Museum-Preserve. The festivals were devoted to bluegrass, blues, Conjunto music, jazz and gypsy jazz.
Museum Night which started on the evening of May 20th was the tenth for Vologda. On this day, also known as International Museum Day, several venues, including museums, exhibitions, historical mansions and parks opened their doors for the whole night. Vologda’s residents and guests to the city used an opportunity to visit all cultural establishments to browse its collections until the early hours of the morning. Visitors were given a common entrance pass which granted them access to all exhibits The Vologda edition of the event was the most crowded over the last ten years.
The international campaign Night of Museums is timed to coincide with the International Museum Day that is held every year on or around May 18th. It serves as a platform to raise public awareness on the role museums play in the development of society today, on an international level.
Head of the Vologda Region Department of Culture and Tourism presented a tourism project “Silver Necklace of Russia” at a meeting in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Preserve. He told about the main stages of the implementation of the project and guidelines for further development.
Bjørn Vidar Solli, a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer will play in Vologda City on May 25th.