Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin - museum complex. Exceptional collections of the Museum include the collection of French art of the XIX-XX centuries, which is one of the most famous in the world. The construction of the Museum building is considered to be on August 17 (29 AD), 1898. As of the beginning of 2016, the Museum has more than 683 thousand storage units. Annual attendance is about 1 million people.

Characteristics of collections

The total museum fund is more than 671,000 units of storage of the museum fund, including:

• painting - 4,956
• graphics - 371,982
• sculpture - 6,130
• objects of applied art, life and ethnography - 2,251
• numismatics - 171,269
• objects of archeology - 8,375
• documents - 229
• objects containing precious metals and stones (out of the total) - 56,953
• + ≈350 000 volumes in the library of the Museum
• + ≈800 000U archival materials

Information Technology at the Museum

2019

Ticket system

Composition of the ticket system

• Central Server (CA)
• Automated workstations (AWS) of cashiers
• AWS of the system administrator
• Accounting AWS
• AWS of excursion department
• AWP of Contract Department
• AWS of Planning and Economic Department
• Web-interface for working with contractual clients of the museum via the Internet: server software
• Web interface for online ticket orders
• Visitors passage control device (manual passage device software)

Museum Information Space

Internal systems

• AIS for financial and economic activities
• AIS of ticket and service sales, CRM system
• accounting and stock systems
• enterprise portal and electronic services (mail, chats, clouds, etc.)
• Media Archives (DAM)
• video surveillance, MCDS, etc.

Exposure systems

• Multimedia for display
• Provision of scientific, educational and educational programs

External systems

• portal/site
• social networks and services (SMM)
• virtualization of expositions and exhibitions
• VR and AR, 360 photo/video
• e-commerce
• electronic editions
• mobile applications
• distance learning systems

Mass digitization

On the information 1.03.2019 in the museum database about 670,000 museum objects, of which 334,000 (49%) have images, in total there are about 683,000 images in the database (not counting special shooting) with a volume of about 35 TB.

Digitization Data Volume

• Approximately 1,750 storage units
• Part of the collection is digitized with multi-position lighting: 16 frames per side of the plate, 96 frames per 1 plate + files with light mixing = 120 files per 1 plate
• I.e. about 210,000 files in total
• 192 items shot in 3D (photography 120 personnel on a 360 ° turntable) = 23,040 files.
• TOTAL: Approximately 233,000 files for cuneiform collection
• Total storage of about 8 TB
• There are only up to 2 million plates in the world

The purpose of saving digital objects:

• ensuring long-term (or perpetual) availability of digital materials,
• with the preservation of all the semantic and functional characteristics of the source materials,
• search, analysis, presentation, and interpretation capabilities.

2016

The main directions of IT development in the museum

• Design and upgrade of SCS, integrated management systems, IT infrastructure (LAN, data center, DSS, system, server and client software)
• Integrated safety and monitoring systems (video surveillance, MCDS, 3rd line, MCDS)
• Digitization of collections, automated accounting systems for funds and storage of digital resources
• Efficiency Improvement (Corporate Portal, Electronic Document Management System)
• Virtual/information space of the Museum (websites, virt. museums, social networks, VR, etc.)
• Service and Product Delivery Upgrades, E-Commerce, Loyalty Programs, Marketing Video Analytics
• IT support of architectural and exposition design (visualization, etc.)
• Multimedia in exposition and exhibition projects, application of IT in educational
• activities, implementation of the project of an electronic lecture hall and media representative offices

Specialist needs

• IT - specialists with competencies and knowledge to work in various areas of the cultural sphere. There are practically no such specialists in the country, therefore, the training of masters on the basis of a technical, less often humanitarian bachelor's degree is necessary;
• Museum employees (art historians, keepers, researchers, restorers, etc.) who are well-oriented and have competencies in the field of application of information technologies. In this case, we are talking about retraining or advanced training courses, etc.

Service Implementation IT System Example

Directions for using RFID tags

• Library
• Archive
• Security sensors for exposure (3 frontiers)
• MF marking
• Monitoring and location
• Logistics
• Loyalty programs

Paintings and 2D artwork

• Vibration-Sensing Tag
• Movement-Sensing Tag
• Micro-Climate Tag

Museum Information Space

Digitization of cultural heritage

• Creating High-Precision Panoramas of the Exterior and Interior
• Digitization of flat objects, including in dynamic lighting
• Multi-directional, RTI and 3D digitization of volumetric objects
• Principle of versatility for any type of application
• Make data available

Digital cultural heritage

• information resources created as a result of digitization
• materials immediately created in digital form

 digital documents and materials (texts, presentations, etc.)

 graphics

 Audiovisual works

 multimedia and virtual systems

 works of media - art

3D model , documents and spaces

Database and IE 

 software

 electronic editions

 static, moving and 3D social networks

 mobile content

 web pages, sites, portals

 information created by new formats and technologies

 games

Purpose to save digital objects

• ensuring long-term (or perpetual) availability of digital materials
• with the preservation of all the semantic and functional characteristics of the source materials
• search, presentation and interpretation capabilities

Design of the museum town and its exposition

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts corporate portal and its integration

• The number of visitors to the site system for 2016 is 2,500,000 (of which 1,900,000 are the central portal).
• The number of views per year is more than 20 million.
• Average increase in visits per year - 25%
• The average daily audience reach over the past month is 350,000 people, involvement is 10-12%.

Virtual walks in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Panasonic Light ID

• Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts has planned the implementation of Light ID
• Panasonic Light ID

History

2016: Museum Renovation Plan

Expected results:

After the implementation of this plan, the total museum space of the Pushkin Museum will increase from 49,000 (actually 24,000) to 105,000 square meters, which will help solve the problem of a catastrophic shortage of premises for storing exhibits, housing a unique Scientific Library, scientific and restoration workshops and exhibition halls.

The increase in space will increase the number of visitors from an average of 1 to 3 million people per year, expand and diversify the range of additional services offered by the museum, such as information services, museum shops, cafes, parking lots, etc.

Collection

"Aurora and Kefal," a painting by the French artist Pierre Narcis Guerin from the Yusupov collection, 1811