The museum launches a 5-month educational programme on shellac record restoration — in partnership with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and the National Academy of Fine Arts (NAOMA).
In January 2026 the Ukrainian Gramophone Museum began a five-month educational programme 'School of Sound Archive — Restoration of 20th Century Shellac Records'. The programme is conducted in partnership with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre (cross-ref Phase 3.9 cinema-sound continuity) and the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (NAOMA). Participants are 10 young sound archivists, audio engineers, restorers — graduates of NAOMA, the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, the Ivan Franko Lviv National University.
Programme disciplines: chemical diagnosis of shellac material (determination of the state of the thermoplastic polymer); ultrasonic cleaning of the record surface from dust and mould; laser 3D scanning of tracks for contactless sound reproduction (on records with damaged surfaces); digital remastering in 24-bit/96kHz format with removal of clicks and noises. A separate section — restoration of covers (paper-card preservation) and documentation of restoration interventions for the archive. Graduation works of participants — restored fragments of records from the museum's holdings — will enter the public digital archive.
