As part of cooperation with HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab, the museum is digitising photographs and documents.

In October 2025, our Museum began collaborating with the non-governmental organisation HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab to digitise part of the main collection. As part of this joint project, we plan to digitise 300 of the most valuable museum items from the ‘Documentary Sources’ collection and 120 artefacts from the ‘Film, Photo and Audio Documents’ collection.

Thanks to the support of ‘HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Laboratory,’ namely the professional equipment they provided, we have already digitised over 140 various documents and photographs. They include part of the archive of Jerry Berman, a foreign engineer who, in 1932–1933, sent letters to friends and relatives from Stanytsia Luhanska, describing in detail his hard life and the semi-starved existence of ordinary workers in Soviet Ukraine. Other materials from the museum collection are also significant and of interest: the work record book of collective farmer Fokii Andriiovych Savytskyi (1930s), the personal card of a member of the Committee of Poor Peasants (1920s), an application by Savytskyi Yu. for permission to slaughter his own pig (22 February 1932) and other documents.

Therefore, the work continues. The digitisation of archival documents is crucial as it ensures the preservation of museum collections and improves access to information for users and researchers. It allows us to preserve materials for many years, facilitates searching for information at any time and from any location, and automates data storage processes. Creating digital copies of such artefacts is particularly relevant in wartime, when any documentary sources are at risk of destruction.