State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin was created by the ascetic Ivan Tsvetaev, who sought to bring bright images and ideas into the modern environment. For a little over a century since the opening of the Pushkin Museum, this environment has changed very much, and today the time has come for images in digital form. Pushkinsky is the center of an entire museum quarter in Moscow, one of the country's main venues, a place to preserve masterpieces of the past and ideas of the future. And he can boast of the largest in the world , which is currently running on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
The project was developed with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation for architects, designers and curators who are planning new exhibition spaces for the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin: they got the opportunity to design expositions and monitor the progress of work in the digital twin of the museum, including with the help of virtual reality glasses. To do this, they created a whole museum quarter in 3D Max in detail, including interior spaces, and placed them in 3D Unity for interactivity.
Now you can see the halls of the main building, the Gallery of European and American Art of the XIX-XX centuries, the Department of Private Collections, the Tsvetaev Educational and Art Museum at the Russian State Humanitarian University and the Svyatoslav Richter Memorial Apartment. Panoramas with audio guides are available on computers and tablets, and VR glasses are required for the 3D walk.
Virtualization of the Pushkin Museum is an excellent example of how modern technologies have expanded the capabilities of both specialists and ordinary museum visitors, and even those who cannot personally reach the building on Moscow's Volkhonka Street. The implementation of the project has been going on for more than 10 years and will not be completed for a long time, just as good ideas do not end.
There are several important dates in the history of the project:
- 2009: creation of a virtual walk through the Italian courtyard - the first 3D scanning and digitization of the museum.
- 2016: creation of a system for planning future exhibitions and an objective assessment of the projected museum space.
- 2018: the virtual Pushkin Museum project received international awards - ΠΈ .
- 2019: now we have an up-to-date virtual version of the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin.
- 2025: planned completion of the museum reconstruction.
Now the new museum can only be seen digitally. But when the reconstruction is completed, the real space will change and it will be necessary to adjust the virtual reality again. The process of transformation of the environment is limitless.
Source: habr.com