Religious exhibits, civilian project photographs in National Archives 2022 restoration
Professionals working on exhibits in the vaults of the downtown venue restored 18,700 papers, 12 posters, 220 newspapers, two photo albums and up to 90 large format drawings in their archival laboratory. Photo: archive.gov.ge.
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Archival exhibits ranging from documents on lives of religious figures in Georgia, photographs of civilian engineering projects and media publications were restored by the National Archives of Georgia over the past year, the institution said in its annual summary.
Professionals working on exhibits in the vaults of the downtown venue restored 18,700 papers, 12 posters, 220 newspapers, two photo albums and up to 90 large format drawings in their archival laboratory.
The report also highlighted their work on bringing religious collections illustrating facts around lives of religious figures in the 17th century back up to condition.
Kurashi Gospels - a 9th to 10th century palimpsest. Photo: archive.gov.ge
Photographs detailing the construction of the Rioni hydroelectric power plant - a major domestic engineering project in the 1920s in the country’s west - also received the attention of the professionals.
Other items that went under the restoration included cinema posters, editions of a 1920s weekly magazine of military news and other papers.
The Archive also said it had launched the restoration of Kurashi Gospels - a 9th to 10th century palimpsest previously preserved at the St. George Church the north-western highland province of Svaneti - in the past year.
Works in the archival laboratory in the western city of Kutaisi, where over 300 papers had been restored in 2022, rounded up the highlights in the annual summary.
Professionals at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia restored 42 “unique” historical maps, thousands of books and newspapers throughout 2022, Natalia Elizbarashvili, the Library’s Head of the Conservation and Restoration Department, said on Wednesday in her summary of the institution’s work.
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Electronic versions of posters and programmes of Georgian theatrical performances, documentary and animated movies and other events have been published on the website of the National Archives of Georgia.
Traditional Korean dancing, costumes, games and other aspects of the national culture were introduced to visitors of an event hosted by the Georgia-Korea Information Access Centre of Tbilisi’s Central Library, the venue said on Tuesday.
The National Archives of Georgia on Friday presented a new book, “Georgian Manuscripts and Historical Documents", combining manuscripts and historical documents preserved in archival funds.
The Georgian Justice Ministry on Saturday responded to “various fake information” being spread over the fire on the territory of the National Archives in Tbilisi on Friday, saying “no one” had been injured in the blaze and “valuable materials” stored in a separate building had been digitised and their copies saved in the film archives.