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Meeting the Third Millennium wuth up-to-grade equipment

Goals:

  • to provide stable and safe optimum climate regime and to create favorable conditions for storing exhibits on exposition, in funds and in restoration workshops
  • to raise safety of electricity and heat supply in conditions of increasing power consumption
  • to raise safety level of people and material values that are stored in the museum
  • to improve safety and access to exhibits conditions
  • to provide optimum light regime (lighting and color transferring) on expositions and restoration workshops
  • to raise quality of restoration works
  • to increase possibilities and quality of receiving, storing and reproducing photo and video production
  • to increase drive and quality in receiving and transferring information
  • providing invalids possibilities equal with other people in getting acquainted with the museum collections
  • to reduce exploitation expenditures.

 

Directions of realization:

Climatological equipment:

Systems of full conditioning and ventilation of all the fund and exposition halls, heating systems with thermoregulating, air screens and moisteners.

Approximate cost - $ 6 500 000

Energy and heat supply systems, electric and heat energy economy facilities:

Autonomous gas boiler-rooms, transformers, electricity distributors, regular power suplpy sources, emergency llighting systems, antifreezing systems.

Approximate cost - $ 1 400 000

Communication systems:

Creating telephone connection system between the museum palaces.

Approximate cost - $ 200 000

Safety systems:

Address systems of automatic fire signaling, fire notification systems, automatic fire putting out systems;

Guarding signaling and video controlling systems;

Protective bars, jalousie, antifire and armored doors.

Approximate cost - $ 3 400 000

Lighting equipment:

Systems of general and local lighting in exposition halls, architectural lighting of facades, lighting in the Russian Museum palaces.

Approximate cost - $ 800 000

Equipment for lighting protection:

Lighting defense rasters, darkening systems, defense from ultra-violet emanation.

Approximate cost - $ 1 500 000

Restoration equipment:

Devices and materials for restoration (working lamps with magnifiers, ultra-violet light, halogen, with ventilators etc., lighting tables, driers, heating palette-knifes, sand-blasters, extracts for restorer's working place, vacuum heating tables, presses, washing tables, carpet cleaning machines, electric instruments for applied art restoration etc.

Approximate cost - $ 100 000

Research equipment:

Portable setting for X-ray and fluorescent analysis, digital photo and video cameras, microscopes.

Approximate cost - $ 100 000

Exposition equipment:

Show-cases of various purposes - wall, floor, corner ones etc., module show-cases for changing expositions, show-cases with special glass (antiblock with defense from ultra-violet rays), show-cases and safes at the same time, climatized show-cases.

Approximate cost - $ 400 000

Depository funds equipment:

Shelves, mobile nets, cases for drawings, cloth, icons etc., lifters for moving exhibits.

Approximate cost - $ 5 000 000

Equipment for lectures', excursions' and concerts' programs:

- Audio and video recorders, video players, video and multimedia projectors, plasma panels. Apparatus for simultaneous translation;

- High-quality systems of halls' and the museum territory scoring;

- Prefabricated stage grounds.

Approximate cost - $ 270 000

Audio and video techniques:

- TV sets, dictaphones, video cameras, equipment for video materials montage;

- Equipment for photo and video shooting.

Approximate cost - $ 250 000

Computer techniques and technical means and equipment for accounting:

- Computers, printers, scanners, computer monitors with active screen;

- Equipment for computer nets, fiber optics communication lines;

- Xeroxes, faxes, equipment for color polygraphy of small circulation.

Approximate cost - $ 1 230 000

Museum techniques:

- Machines for cleaning exposition halls and depositories, machines for wet cleaning of all kinds of floor covers, for polishing, machines for cleaning glass ceilings;

- Machines for territory cleaning, techniques for garden services;

- Specialized transport for exhibits' transferring;

- Electric and hydraulic elevators and scaffold for cleaning and serving the museum rooms with the height more than 4 meters;

- Elevators for invalid carriages and people with limited mobility;

- Wood and metal working machine-tools.

Approximate cost - $ 590 000

Total cost - $ 21 740 000