"The Moscow Taganka Theatre" created the museum of memory of Yury Lyubimov

On October 6, 2017 the Polymedia company announced creation of the interactive museum in "The Moscow Taganka Theatre".

Project Tasks

The project was implemented to the 100 anniversary since the birth of the director Yury Lyubimov.

The memorable place in theater - Lyubimov's office. During lifetime of the director there were Andrey Tarkovsky, Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Vladimir Putin, Arthur Miller, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Bella Akhmadullina, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and other famous people here. All of them left paintings on office walls. The foundation of this tradition was laid by Andrey Voznesensky from the record "All Goddesses — as Toadstools before Women from Taganka".

Fragment of installation of the museum, (2017)

To make these paintings public, engineers of Polymedia suggested to digitize and transfer all records to the theater foyer. On walls of the foyer of painting come to life, and their author tells the story of acquaintance to Yury Lyubimov and his theater.

It is easy in a basis of the concept of the created documentary 10-minute video installation which main actions are developed in Yury Lyubimov's office. At the beginning of video the room of the director increases to the foyer sizes, and at the viewer illusion is created that he is in that an office. The subject line by light from a small lamp is conducted. Small lamps were the main tool of Yury Lyubimov. Using them it interacted with the actors even during the performances. "Green" light meant that everything is good, "red" – there will be a rehearsal, and "white" was color of the various mysterious signs clear only to the director and his actors.

Project Progress

Video installation is implemented by means of 12 projectors of Panasonic, a switching system of Atlona, the multimedia server and the software of Unity. The video image is projected by a stitching method on perimeter of walls in the foyer the integral circular image.

The viewer receives 360 ° immersion in video content with 3D - effect and feeling of presence at the director's office. The 3D Labs United company took part in creation of content.

The second element of the museum - the interactive booths located in different parts of theater. With their help guests of Taganka Theatre can go to a virtual panoramic tour across the building with access to the premises closed from ordinary visitors:

• make-up rooms,
• wardrobe,
• workshops,
• different workshops
• other corners of theater.

On September 30, 2017 the interactive museum opened.

Project Results

The central exposure of the museum is provided by a complex from 12 projectors. They transfer to foyer walls the integral image – specially created circular video devoted to the founder of Taganka Theatre – to Yury Lyubimov.

Visitors of theater can virtually glance in Yury Lyubimov's office or in a make-up room Vladimir Vysotsky's room, obtain information on the history of theater, its troupe and the repertoire, to listen to an audioperformance in five languages.