Memory of the Future
non-profit organisation

Preserving heritage, shaping the future

What is not recorded in time is lost for good

We record the cultural heritage of western Ukraine digitally, so that an object can still be measured, studied and reproduced once the original is gone. A non-profit organisation, registered in Ternopil in 2016.

What we do

Three strands of work

The organisation rests on three things: recording an object precisely enough to measure it, finding the document that explains what it is, and making both available to people who are far away.

01

Digital recording

Photogrammetric survey of sacred sculpture, monuments, carving and burials. The result is a model with real geometry rather than a photograph: dimensions, profiles and tool marks can all be taken from it.

02

Archival research

An object without a document is only stone. We work with parish registers, cadastral records and state archive holdings to return a name, a date and a history to what we record.

03

Access and reproduction

A model can be shown on screen, used in scholarship, or printed as a physical replica. For a local community it is a way to keep a monument that is falling apart; for researchers, a way to work without travelling.

Sections

Where to go next

Photogrammetry & 3D

Recording, processing and reproduction: what the organisation actually does in the field and afterwards.

Archival research

An object without a document is just a stone. How we find the document and what we do with it.

Projects

Work carried through to a result, and the project connected to the organisation.

About

Who runs the organisation, who it works with, and the details you can verify it by.

Contact

In English or Ukrainian — the head of the organisation answers personally.

Is something in your care deteriorating?

Write to us and we will discuss recording it. The head of the organisation answers personally.

Write to us