Museums · 2024
Museum of Contemporary History of Russia — the “Russia. 21st century” exhibition
Museums / Museum of Contemporary History of Russia — the “Russia. 21st century” exhibition
About the project
The “Information portal” and the “Russian Spring” installation for the new exhibition “Russia. 21st century” at the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, opened on 8 November 2024.
On 8 November 2024 a new permanent exhibition, “Russia. 21st century: challenges of the time and development priorities”, opened at the Museum of Contemporary History of Russia on Tverskaya Street — about events in the country over the last quarter of a century. It has five halls, more than 500 original objects and 31 multimedia exhibits. The exhibition was designed by another company.
We made two installations for the exhibition: the “Information portal” in the hall “Russia — for a just multipolar world!” and “Russian Spring”.
Year
2024
Industry
Museums
Scope of work
2 installations: the “Information portal” and “Russian Spring”
Venue
Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, “Russia. 21st century” exhibition, Moscow
- 2
- installations for the exhibition
- 4
- sections on the portal’s main screen
- 08.11.2024
- opening of the “Russia. 21st century” exhibition
The task
The hall “Russia — for a just multipolar world!” covers the country’s foreign policy in the 21st century: the 2007 Munich speech, NATO’s eastward expansion, the reunification with Russia of Crimea and Sevastopol, the DPR, the LPR and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, and the special military operation. Two installations had to be made — the “Information portal” for this hall and “Russian Spring” — within a week, in time for the opening on 8 November.
What we did
“Information portal”
A screen on the dark wall of the hall, with a control handle with an illuminated ring beside it. The main screen has four sections matching the themes of the hall: “National security”, “Foreign policy”, “Russian Spring. Donbas against Nazism” and “The special military operation”.
“Russian Spring”
The second installation we made for the exhibition.
How it is built
The portal is controlled not by touching the screen but with a separate illuminated handle on a flexible metal hose next to the screen.
The background of the portal’s interface is white three-dimensional blocks, like those on the walls of the hall itself.
Result
Work on the installations ran from 1 to 8 November 2024. The exhibition opened on 8 November; the opening was attended by Russia’s Minister of Culture, Olga Lyubimova, and the chairman of the Russian Historical Society, Sergey Naryshkin.
