Museum digital collections and the Open Museum project

The problem of access to closed museum collections in the digital space is considered. The main content of the article is a description of the concept of the “Open Museum” and also noted the importance of using open licenses that exist in order to provide the possibility of multiple use of images of collections. A method of providing access to cultural content is described on the example of the implementation of a series of publications by the Department of Information Technologies in creative and cultural industries together with the Publishing House of the Siberian Federal University in order to develop the cultural canon and popularize digital museum content.