Digital Museum collection
The project is unique for Mykolaiv and the country as a whole, as it promotes the digitized cultural heritage of southern Ukraine among domestic and foreign audiences. Due to the full-scale war and other security measures, most of the exhibits in Mykolaiv’s museums remain inaccessible to researchers and visitors, stored in archives or in secure locations. Although they are of extraordinary historical and cultural value, demonstrating the achievements of Ukrainian and European culture, they have not been exhibited to a wide audience. Over the five years of the project, we have created a digital collection of paintings, graphics, marine art, and porcelain with free 24/7 access, which allows these works to be introduced into scientific circulation, improves the source base for scientific research, and ensures unlimited reproduction of these copies.
As part of the project, in 2025 we digitized, researched, and cataloged 329 paintings, in 2024 – 430 graphic works, in 2023 – 422 marine paintings, in 2021 – 302 pieces of porcelain, and in 2020 – 518 graphic works.
We have created this web resource, which allows users to view and download electronic copies of exhibits in a convenient format. The publication of illustrated albums is another source of knowledge about rare museum collections among cultural institutions in Ukraine.
In 2025-2024, we created two virtual galleries in augmented reality with digitized paintings and graphics, and animated four visual works by Mykolaiv artists. In 2023, we created three 3D models in AR, and in 2020, we created five, and printed a series of postcards for reading the images. We implemented an educational program of online lectures with invited experts from Ukraine, who shared their knowledge and practical advice on the development of museums and the preservation of cultural heritage. The project contributes to the preservation and popularization of Ukraine’s cultural heritage and allows it to be integrated into the global cultural space, as well as opening up Mykolaiv as another point on the country’s cultural map.
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In 1882, the painter, teacher, and public figure Leonid Inglesi was born in Mykolaiv — a representative of the city’s branch of a prosperous Greek family. His father, Vasyl Inglesi, was a merchant and one of Mykolaiv’s largest property owners.
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The Transcarpathian School of Painting is a unique phenomenon in Ukrainian art, which emerged at the crossroads of early 20th-century Western European artistic culture and the deep folk traditions of the Carpathian region. Formed between the 1920s and 1950s, it
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Oleksandr Kostiantynovych Bohomazov (1880-1930) entered the history of Ukrainian art as one of the founders of national cubo-futurism. During his lifetime Bohomazov was awarded the proud name "Ukrainian Picasso". Being one of the most talented artists of his time, in some
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The V.V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum is a museum with an interesting century-old history. Over the years, it collects, stores and reveals to its visitors the best examples of fine art that have been created in different countries around the
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Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky was an outstanding graphic artist, a master of expressive line, a great illustrator and book designer, a talented scenographer, a member of "Mir iskusstva", a critic, and a memoirist. Dobuzhinsky was born in 1875 in Novgorod and was
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Danilo Karpovich Krainev (13 (25).12.1872, Bosarevo village, Kaluga province, now Orel region, Russia - 02.06.1949, Odessa) was a painter, teacher, and Honored Artist of the USSR (1941). He was an active member of art associations that emerged in Southern Ukraine in
