Croc digitized exposures of the House of the Russian abroad of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

On June 27, 2019 the CROC company reported that the Museum of the Russian abroad of the House of the Russian abroad of Alexander Solzhenitsyn created the modern multimedia exposure devoted to the history of the Russian emigration. Over 2,000 exhibits of the museum (letters, photos, books) are transferred to a digital form and provided to visitors in a format, evident and convenient for perception. For this purpose in the museum 54 multimedia screens and 13 projectors for a videomepping are installed, zones with the systems of the directed sound and motion sensors are created. The project is implemented by CROC IT company together with the leading players of the market - RAA, PITCH, MKS, Digis.

Digital exhibits of the museum work as a uniform art object on the set scenario. In it feature of multimedia exposure. For example, the excursion on the museum begins with demonstration of the movie about the fate of the famous emigrants, and its final is followed by a videomepping – visualization of flight of birds on all premises of the museum. Birds fly from the right wall on left, symbolizing emigration, appearing on each screen. Along with demonstration of content lighting, color registration and a sound changes. All this submerges visitors on interactive Wednesday.

"The museum – the meeting of valuable exhibits is not simple, it is the whole world into which multimedia technologies help to plunge. They do exposures more attractive to visitors, "recover" artifacts. The interactive format and impact on the bigger number of sense organs attracts more young audience, focused on digital experience. We literally submerge visitors in a historical era to which the exhibition is devoted", noted Andrey Kruchinin, the head of department of military and historical heritage of the House of the Russian abroad of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

CROC synchronized content of the museum which was on different servers, screens and players. For this purpose specialists of the company integrated all audiovisual solutions (information display, scoring, lighting) in a uniform and simple system in use. Management of a multimedia complex of the museum happens to the help of the developed CROC of the touch interface on the tablet. Thanks to it guides can start the scenario of multimedia exposure literally for couple of clicks. On the tablet the status of operation of the multimedia equipment is also displayed. It allows IT service of the museum to react most quickly to emergency situations, preventing failures in exposure work.

Using interactive screens visitors can visually get acquainted with valuable exhibits from fund of the museum – letters, photos, documents, video. In addition, screens act as art objects of museum space. In such format using the touchpad it is possible to study big e-book "Russians in Shanghai" or the digitized diaries of the Russian military figure, lieutenant general A.P. Budberg.

The digitized historical content is displayed on technology prepared walls of the museum, creating the special atmosphere of perception for visitors. Videos are output to walls using the projectors set in ceiling niches. Thanks to technology of a soft stitching content from 13 independent sources integrates in several integral space images. The total area of a projective surface was 24 sq.m.

To make experience of visit of the museum more convenient, CROC equipped halls with the modern system of the directed soundtrack. Using this solution of audio content is heard only to that person who is near an exhibit. The sound does not dissipate on museum space, does not mix up with extraneous noises and does not disturb other visitors.

Guests can be sure that within visit of the museum they did not miss information, interesting to themselves. As soon as the person approaches a specific exhibit, motion sensors work, movies, rollers, an interview, performances are started from the very beginning.

"Digital-Wednesday changes habits of consumption of information. Content becomes not only interactive and entertaining, but also more personalized. The museums create new experience of communication, non-standard methods of involvement of audience using audiovisual solutions", notedDmitry Shabanov, the head of audiovisual complexes of CROC IT company