The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Visitors of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will be able to contemplate the most famous paintings through a mobile application Artefact, RIA Novosti informs.
According to the museum director Marina Loshak, anybody in an art gallery of Europe or US of the 19-20th centuries will be able to get additional information about each painting of their interest. She added that the application was developed specially by FIFA World Cup. Tourists coming to Moscow will not need an interpreter as all information is already translated into English. Besides, Artefact performs audio-guide functions as well.
About 300 masterpieces are encoded into the application. It is enough to download the application and place it against a painting to receive detailed information about it. The application comprises one more function, users can see how this or that painting looked like before the restoration.
Note that soon the legendary Leiden collection will be presented in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. More than 80 masterpieces never exhibited in Russia before will make a part of the exposition titled the Epoch of Rembrandt and Vermeer. The list of masterpieces contains 12 paintings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn and by Vermeer van Delft, sketches of Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci.
Marina Loshak promised that art admirers will be able to use all advantages of the new application already at this exhibition.
Around a hundred of museums and organizations are already using Artefact. The application stores information about almost 50 exhibitions.
Russkiy Mir
