{"id":8,"date":"2020-07-27T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T08:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matitsa.ru\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-08-18T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T08:12:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the past people in the north used to say, \u201cThe sea is our field\u201d. Sea is the main reason why people appeared and still live here.<\/p>\r\n

In the Russian North, the word \u201cmatitsa\u201d means the main beam which supports the ceiling in wooden buildings, at the same time it is a keel in Pomor ships. The word \u201cmatitsa\u201d has a common Slavic root \u00abmat\u2019\u00bb meaning mother, who is the basis and the prime reason of life. Trying to revive and understand what a traditional wooden boat is, we, thus, answer the question of \u201cWho we are and why we live here\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

The international project \u201cMatitsa\u201d: preservation and development of northern wooden shipbuilding\u201d is an open platform for skilled workers, amateurs and experts in wooden shipbuilding.<\/p>\r\n

It is impossible to return wooden shipbuilding back to life without thorough understanding of traditional techniques which help to shape high potential designers, builders and preservation professionals, museum workers and reenactors. Professional cooperation will help to make the field more popular. The project outcome will be shaping a community aimed to show solutions to maintain, restore and research wooden shipbuilding artefacts.<\/p>\r\n

Within two years there will be organized online-seminars, exhibitions, a course of public lectures \u201cMatitsa of meaning\u201d, expeditions, competitions, guide-tours, training sessions and International Forum as part of the project. On the website of the project we are creating space for maritime museums, shipyard museums and individual craftsmen building and reconstructing traditional boats.<\/p>\r\n

Northern Maritime Museum is a project creator and a main platform for the project. In June 2020 \u201cMatitsa\u201d project created by the Museum won \u201cMuseum 4.0\u201d competition conducted by Vladimir Potanin Foundation within a programme \u201cMuseum without borders\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

Partners of the project are Ministry of Culture of the Arkhangelsk region, the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, Kenozerskiy National Park, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, The Foundation for the Revival of Traditional Shipbuilding and Arctic Navigation, The Pomor Shipbuilding partnership.<\/p>\r\n

More than 35 organizations confirmed their participation in the project, among them are\u00a0 Local History Museum in Arkhangelsk, marine club Polyarniy Odissey (Petrazavodsk), Shipyard Varyag (Petrazavodsk), Museum of the World Ocean (Kaliningrad), Museum of Nomadic Culture (Moscow), Lofotr Viking Museum (Lofoten Islans, Norway), Hardanger Maritime Museum (Norheimdsun, Norway), Varanger Museum (Vardo, Norway), Sj\u04e7historiska museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Maritime Centre Vellamo (Kotka, Finland), Penobscot Marine Museum (Searsport, Main, the USA).<\/p>\r\n

The organizers are positive that the \u201cMatitsa\u201d project will contribute to the establishment of \u201cshipyard- museums\u201d, \u201cship-museums\u201d and will also help modern craftsmen master traditional techniques and introduce them to wide audience.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the past people in the north used to say, \u201cThe sea is our field\u201d. Sea is the main reason why people appeared and still live here. In the Russian North, the word \u201cmatitsa\u201d means the main beam which supports the ceiling in wooden buildings, at the same time it is a keel in Pomor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matitsa.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}