Abstracts:

1. Museum’s collection

Moscow Kremlin Museums have more than 60 thousand objects of historical and cultural value including the following collections:
- Collection of regalia – ancient rarities of the supreme authorities of Russia.
- Weapons collection – the armory of Russian czar’s of the XVI-XVII centuries and weapons dating from XVIII – early XIX centuries.
- Collection of the Stable’s Treasury – historical harness.
- Collection of the ancient carriages of Russian czars.
- Collection of Russian Silversmith’s Art. (XIII-XX cc.).
- Collection of Diplomatic gifts (West European silver).
- Collection of Ceramics and Glass – West European and Russian porcelain from the XVIII – XX centuries.
- Collection of watches – ancient clocks and watches.
- Collection of textile – secular and religious objects made from different patterned fabrics, tapestry, banners and different accessories of the secular dress.
- Collection of Orders and Medals. Russian and foreign orders and decorations, collection of memorable medals (Russian, foreign and modern artistic medals), sphragistics collection (seals) and collection of statues of Russian orders.
- Numismatic collection. Russian and foreign ancient and modern coins.
- Collection of Icons. The icons from cathedrals, czar’s and patriarch’s chambers and chapels of the Moscow Kremlin form the basis of the collection.
There are also other collections.

2. Information and technical resources.
Moscow Kremlin Museums pay great attention to the creation of the database of the museum’s collections.
To achieve this:
- in 2001 the museum installed “KAMIS” system created by “Alt-Soft” company.
“KAMIS” system was installed on 45 workstations - at the repository departments, at the department of the registration of the museum objects, at the exhibition department and the photo studios. It was made specially for the comfortable and operative work
- the museum has created two digital photo studios, which have digital cameras of the high resolution (Leica S1 PRO, Hasselblad, DIGIMEQ).
The files of digital images have the size of up to 250 Mb.
In 2001 the museum has introduced “MARC-SQL” information system created by “Inform-systema” company for museum library. Now each any scientific researcher may use library electronic catalogue at his workplace.
In 2003 we started to introduce the system of the description of ancient buildings “KAISA” created by “Alt-Soft” company.

3. Resources and technology for the attribution of the museum’s collections.
One may use special thesauruses to describe museum object for database.
At this moment the museum’s staffs are creating the following thesauruses:
- materials;
- technique;
- authors;
- manufactures.
Every position of the thesaurus is checked. Each position has an information article and picture.
To coordinate these activities the museum has introduced a special position of the editor of the “KAMIS” system.

4. Informational policy and the museum’s collections.
The museum seeks to provide wide scale information services. In particular:
- to introduce the subject index of the museum’s collection on the web-site of the museum.
- to secure the reception of the inquiries, handling of the inquiries and provision of the information of the museum’s objects from the informational system.
- to produce virtual exhibitions.

5. Special Professional Training for the provision of informational services.
There are three main problems of our special interest:
- the experience of the provision of the electronic catalogues by other museums and museum communities.
- the use of dictionaries and reference books to form the inquiries.
- the provision of the information services on the Internet.