US expert Daniel Weiss leads museum digitization workshops in Ashgabat

As part of bilateral cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Turkmenistan and the United States, Dr. Daniel Weiss, a representative of the University of Virginia, visited leading museums in Ashgabat. The visit was organised under the Fulbright Specialist Program, an international exchange sponsored by the US State Department and administered by World Learning.

Weiss is delivering a series of lectures and training workshops for museum staff and research institute workers in Turkmenistan. The sessions aim to share experience and introduce modern methods of digitising and digitally documenting cultural heritage. At the State Museum of the State Cultural Centre of Turkmenistan, he reviewed unique historical and archaeological exhibits, which he said are of great scientific interest.

Weiss gave a lecture titled 'Information and Digitisation' and a similar workshop took place at the State Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan. He stressed the strategic importance of digitising museum collections for preserving cultural heritage for future generations and as a reliable historical source. The two sides exchanged experience in applying innovative technologies in museum work in the US and Turkmenistan.