Information technology and museums: the audio guides for the "Rattling Ball, Shining Ball..." exhibition are presented in the Peter and Paul Fortress

"Rattling ball, Shining ball..." exhibition takes place in the Peter and Paul Fortress (St. Petersburg) from the 30th of October 2014 to the 13th of September 2015.

The exhibition brings together more than 300 exhibits from the collections of the State Museum of History of St. Petersburg and the Russian National Library.

State Museum of History of St. Petersburg and the IZI.TRAVEL company released two audio guides to the exhibition for mobile devices: an audio guide for the "Rumbling Ball, Shining Ball" exhibition and audio guide "10 addresses. Balls in St. Petersburg" - a mobile guide to St. Petersburg, telling about 10 city addresses where the most popular and renowned Saint Petersburg’s balls of XIX - an early XX century were carried out. Among them, the Winter Palace, Engelhardt’s house, The Aquarium theater and others.

Petersburg’s balls are a reflection of a glance and a glamor of the Russian imperial capital. St. Petersburg’s society life of XVIII - early XX centuries could not be imagined without this popular entertainment. Displayed at the exhibition lithographs, photographs, numerous posters and invitations demonstrate the diversity of St. Petersburg ball events for over two centuries. Mostly remarkable and demonstrating the inexhaustible imagination of the organizers are the thematic posters of the late nineteenth - early twentieth century, as well as the photographs of the balls of early twentieth century, in particular - portraits of the members of the famous Russian style costume ball in February 1903 in the Winter Palace.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is ballroom and masquerade costumes and masks from various periods. The silk fans, lace, ostrich feathers accessorize the outfits along with posies and ballroom notebooks for dance recording, shoes, handbags, gloves, and boas.