The virtual museum and exhibition "Sharing History," which was put together with the joint efforts of 22 countries including Turkey with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, opened on April 15. Initiated as a project by Museum with No Frontiers (MWNF), the virtual museum features 206 artworks from Turkey.Speaking at the conference that took place at the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Nermin Kırım, deputy undersecretary for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said MWNF's Sharing History project will enable people to re-discover world culture and shared history through virtual applications. The museum, which intends to develop inter-cultural dialogue and introduce shared cultural heritage, also focuses on the period between 1815 and 1918. "This project studies a wide geography and cultures that interact with each other throughout history. It brings all the objects and points of the past together and takes an important step to understanding past experiences," said Kırım, expressing their happiness for Turkey to be a part of such an organization. The virtual museum, which can be visited from its official web page www.sharinghistory.org, centers upon 10 themes. It features over 3,000 materials including historical documents, artworks, archeological findings and images portraying daily life. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism's General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and Museums represents Turkey in this project with a total of 206 visual and written materials, including 17 new additional documents on monumental constructions. It was also reported that Turkey is among the countries that have the richest collections in terms of the number of the materials, as well as their qualities.
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