Information technology and culture: Eight museums of Karelia and Finland to have signs with QR-codes

In the next two years in eight museums of Karelia and Finland will be introduced signs with QR-codes. This decision was made at the seminar, which was held in Petrozavodsk during the international project “Euroregion Karelia: Museum hypertext”.

In the eight museums of Karelia and Finland will be introduced a modern system that will unite the museum exhibits in a single hypertext. Every visitor of museums in Finland and Karelia with a Tablet PC or a smart phone with detection QR-code will get much information about the artifact. Moreover, the basic information will be supplemented by thematically related to the museum project participants with historical or territorial context - said the Minister of Culture of Karelia Elena Bogdanova.

 Museum workers will help to establish the necessary applications as well as will advise users on the issues of the use of mobile phones and tablet computers as a QR-code reading devices. In addition, in the museums, involved in the project, visitors can rent the necessary equipment.

The international project “Euroregion Karelia: Museum hypertext” is attended by twelve organizations, including eight museums of Russia and Finland. Through the project, the organizers hope to bring together the people of the region and the Russian border regions of Finland, to increase interest in each other and increase the desire to learn the features and events of general history, uniting the two countries.