Alexander Avdeyev, until the appointment of the head of the Ministry of Culture of Russia occupying the post of Ambassador of Russia in France, decided to adopt the French system of funding of national museums: to entrust the patronage of the wealthy people and their well-known public figures. «So, now funded as a sport, let the finance and museums», - explained the Minister, immediately require additional investments and the State: the sectoral wage workers sphere of culture should be allocated twelve billion rubles, that their incomes were comparable to the average Russian level. «The money should go hand in hand with the budget for culture and not from the budget of Culture», - said Avdeyev.

Increase the salaries of museum workers in the thirty - forty per cent will also help optimize the management, which implies a reduction of the Minister of the so-called «unnecessary» posts. What are the specific positions involved Avdeyev not specified.

More sixty-five billion rubles will be required, according to Culture Minister, on issues related to the restoration of the restoration school fondohranilisch extension and training of qualified specialists in the next ten years. Tarry not: of the eighty millions of museum objects in the consolidated list, ten million require urgent restoration. «A restore sometimes there», - noted the Head of Ministry of Culture of Russia.

In the words of Alexander Avdeev, Moscow and St. Petersburg to create headaches restoration centers, with a «good salary» for staff and the best technical equipment for laboratories. Currently, the powerful school of restoration, who worked in Russia in the past, «disintegrated, or almost lost».

Ministry of Culture of Russia has also prepared a new guide for the conduct of the public catalog of museum items, as previously adopted in 1986, is outdated: there is «no modern methods of marking and record-keeping», which is why, for example, in one Museum exhibits over there, in the other - their shortage. Avdeyev told the State Duma, which is currently held in Russian museums total check, which is already at an early stage, revealed the catastrophic state of affairs: Eighty per cent of museums are located in unsuitable buildings, thirty-six museum buildings are in need of major repairs, and the deficit of space for fondohranilisch reached seven thousand square meters.

Source: www.utro.ru