"Museum of the Bolshoi Theater" digitized the costume fund

October 1, 2015. ELAR Corporation announced a project to digitize exhibits from the Bolshoi Theater Museum fund.

Museum of the Bolshoi Academic Theater of Russia, 2015

To translate the archive of A.A. Gorsky into electronic form, the PowerScan high-quality scanning complex was used. Other materials from the Bolshoi Museum fund, reflecting the history of opera and ballet art, were digitized on the equipment of the PlanScan brand. The main advantage of this scanner is careful scanning, excluding both the mechanical effect on the original and the influence of UV and IR rays.

More than 4,000 photographic images and over 1,000 handwritten documents and sketches have been translated into electronic form. Among the most valuable materials of the collection are photographs and manuscripts of the great Russian choreographer and teacher Alexander Gorsky.

"This equipment is very often used for the implementation of digitization projects in museums," says Evgeny Mokeev, an expert on working with cultural institutions of the ELAR corporation. "The electronic images obtained on this scanner are distinguished by perfect color reproduction and reprographic quality."

"Alexander Gorsky is a unique person in the world of Moscow ballet, a choreographer who raised the Bolshoi Theater troupe to an unprecedented height for the beginning of the 20th century, an innovative choreographer. He paid great attention to the study of the anatomy and plasticity of the dancer's body, promoted a special system for recording movements, actively used photography to fix scenery and groups of artists in performances, he himself was an excellent photographer, made sketches and sketches of costumes and scenery for his productions, - says the chief curator of the Museum of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater Ekaterina Churakova. - Photographs from the archive of the great choreographer, his manuscripts and sketches, as well as other valuable exhibits were scanned by ELAR specialists . The museum plans to use digital copies of these images and documents to fill the KAMIS accounting system, publish albums and for exhibition projects. "

Project development

On August 4, 2016, ELAR announced the continuation of the digitization of the exhibits of the Bolshoi Theater Museum.

ELAR Corporation completed the electronic translation of three thousand posters of the Soviet period from the collection of the museum, and more than ten thousand sketches of theatrical costumes^[1].

Among the scanned sketches created for productions at the Bolshoi are works by outstanding artists, namely: Konstantin Korovin, Evgeny Ponomarev, Simon Virsaladze, Vladimir Dmitriev. The exhibits are scanned in formats and with permission, which will allow you to use digital images in accounting activities, for publishing books, in exhibition projects, as well as to fill the future website of the Bolshoi Theater Museum. Lydia Harina, director of the Bolshoi Theater Museum

Theater posters and sketches are scanned on the territory of the museum. The use of high-quality scanning complexes of the ELAR PowerScan brand made it possible to create electronic copies of the format up to A0 without software stitching with an optical resolution of at least 600 dpi.

We have been collaborating with the Bolshoi Theater Museum since 2011. Within the framework of the joint project, an electronic 3D collection of unique stage costumes was created, photographic pictures from the museum collection, handwritten documents, in particular, belonging to the great Russian choreographer and teacher Alexander Gorsky, were translated into electronic form. And at every stage of our work together, the approach to digitization was special. Evgeny Mokeev, Deputy Head of Museum Department of ELAR Corporation

The Bolshoi Theater Museum has digitized the costume fund

On July 19, 2017, ELAR Corporation announced the digital transfer of more than two thousand exhibits from the costume fund of the Bolshoi Theater Museum.

The digitization site was deployed on the territory of the storage of the Bolshoi Theater Museum. Stage costumes have been digitally converted using special equipment to create electronic images of valuable volumetric objects in high resolution.

The museum receives a cylindrical video that allows you to view the object on the screen from all sides and in detail, as well as photographs of the exhibit, which can be uploaded to the accounting system and the State Catalog of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation. Thus, digital copies are used by the museum in accounting activities and to present collections. Evgeny Mokeev, Deputy Head of the Department of ELAR Corporation for Work with Museums

We use electronic images as part of the organization of interactive exhibitions, when 3D videos are shown on large-format monitors. Thus, the modern viewer has the opportunity to see those costumes that cannot be exhibited due to their safety, or due to the inability to provide them with special exposure conditions. Anastasia Belevich, Curator of the Bolshoi Theater Museum Costume Fund

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