Excursion for pupils of the children’s health camp of the state educational institution «Gymnasium No. 4 of Mogilev»

On June 19, 2024, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign, pupils of the children’s health camp of the State Educational Institution «Gymnasium No. 4 of Mogilev» visited the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region».

In the reading room, employees of the department for the scientific use of documents and information introduced the children to the history of archival affairs in the Mogilev region, the peculiarities of the work of archivists, as well as the opportunity to receive higher education under the conditions of targeted training in the field of archival affairs and office work.

The children were shown the documentary film «Liberation», which was prepared by employees of the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents» (Dzerzhinsk) as part of the project «Open Film Archive. We brought this day closer as best we could,» dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.

The children were clearly shown the process of digital document processing. And at the end, they visited the archives, where they were able to find out the peculiarities of the conditions for storing documents.

1 The children get acquainted with the museum exhibition and old books from the scientific and reference library of the archive.

2 Pupils of a summer health camp listen to the head of the department for the scientific use of documents and information, Olga Trotskaya