Mission of the Museum of the SEI «Avicenna Tajik State Medical University».
Museum specialist:
To popularize the history of the University's activities.
Goals and objectives
• Conduct collection, scientific archival, and excursion work.;
• Promote the historical, cultural, educational, and scientific heritage of the University.;
• Provide professional orientation for young people and cultivate morality and patriotism through historical documents and exhibits located in the museum.;
• Inform and involve schoolchildren, applicants, students, teachers, and the general public in various University activities through diverse formats.;
• Shape the cultural, moral, and aesthetic development of students.;
• Serve as a venue for various events, including meetings with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, labor veterans, and University graduates.
Activities
To familiarize first-year students and students from other courses with the history and achievements of the University, the Museum conducts overview and thematic excursions throughout the year as part of the University’s career guidance program.
The main exhibits of the Museum focus on the University’s history, departments, scientific and sports achievements of teachers and students, collaborations with national medical universities, and international relations. The Museum attracts employees, students, young teachers, University graduates, applicants, and guests from other countries. As the center of the University’s moral and educational work, the Museum plays a crucial role in fostering patriotic feelings, humanism, mercy, and pride in University traditions.
The concept of an interactive museum. Museum equipment
The university management fully supports the university museum. According to the concept, the Museum should correspond to the innovative Development Strategy of the University and serve as a worthy "frame" for the history of ATSMU achievements. The Museum is equipped with modern innovative equipment and exhibits. As a result, the Museum organically combines the compactness of the premises, unlimited reserves of interactive space, high technology and modern design.
In this concept, we moved away from "exhibits" in the usual sense of the word and elevated them to a series of artistic information installations. "Installations" are divided according to the milestones of the University's development and are always made in light colors. Chiaroscuro is used to highlight details and place emphasis on objects. This is necessary to maintain the unity and organicity of the space.
In the modern world, the pace of creation and accumulation of information is accelerating, and in the cycle of information flow, tools are needed to ensure fast and effective access to various knowledge located in different sources. One of such tools is the information retrieval system (IRS), the main task of which is to provide relevant information from a large volume of data and, importantly, to create new information.
An information retrieval system is an applied computer environment for processing, storing, sorting, filtering and searching large arrays of structured information. Each information retrieval system (IRS) consists of two parts: a database (DB) and a database management system (DBMS). A special role in information systems is given to a person, a person is the direct creator of the IRS, he fills it, contributes to its configuration, and it is the person who is the consumer of the information contained in the IRS. An information retrieval system in a museum is intended to maintain a single database of museum exhibits, containing complete text and graphic information.
Achievements
1. Creation of the First Innovative Museum in the Republic and in the University.
2. Unique concept of the Museum – combination of history, modern design and the latest technologies.
3. Creation of a database (DB) and a database management system (DBMS).
4. Absence of a traditional tour guide – his role is performed by an audio guide.
5. Use of artificial intelligence, voice-over of the collected information material in three languages (Tajik, Russian, English), with accompanying photos in the voice of a robot, bot.
Museum decoration and design
1. Several halls have been prepared (the Presidential Room, the Rectors' Achievements Room, the International Cooperation Room).
2. Everything has been systematized by zones, a corridor with a demonstration of the university's scientific schools has been decorated, modern lighting, lighting in the corridors and rooms above the objects have been used, the issue of ventilation and air conditioning of the Museum has been resolved.
3. The number of visitors to the museum has increased by students of all courses of ATSMU, parents of students, applicants, schoolchildren, students from other countries on academic mobility, foreign scientists visiting ATSMU and graduates of previous years.
Future plans
I. We plan to install a Model in the center of the hall of the rectors' room:
1) Campus - a student town, which is a huge complex of buildings and educational buildings of ATSMU, which includes:
• New building of ATSMU (administrative and educational building).
• Monument of Avicenna..
• Simulation Center for training practical skills.
• Educational buildings, lecture halls.
• Educational and clinical Center "Dentistry".
• Dormitories № 3, 4, 6, 7.
• Canteen.
• New dormitory under construction.
• Planned university clinic.
2) Research Institute of Fundamental Sciences of the State Educational Institution "ATSMU ".
3) Central Research Laboratory (CRL).
4) Educational, scientific and production Center "Pharmacy".
5) Dormitories № 1 and 2.
6) Dormitory № 5.
7) Clinical bases.
8) Sanitary and epidemiological stations.
II. We plan to increase the museum's equipment with display cases dedicated to the university's anniversaries, university graduates, and employees - veterans of the Great Patriotic War and masters of sports.
III.Creation of an information retrieval system: The most important functions of the information retrieval system:
• providing reliable, timely and systematized information;;
• organizing intra-museum reference systems;;
• facilitating museum accounting, processing and analysis of collections;
• relieving employees of routine work due to its automation;
• replacing paper data carriers with electronic ones, which leads to a more rational organization of information processing;
• improving the structure of information flows and the document flow system in the institution (museum);
• assistance in scientific activities;•
• assistance in exposition and exhibition activities;
• assistance in museum cooperation;
• creating museum and inter-museum WEB resources that provide remote access to museum collections.
IV. Make a video about the museum, create a book or brochure about the museum.
