Information technology and museums: The first game application of the State Tretyakov Galley “Landscape. Art-constructor” launched

24 July 2015

The State Tretyakov Gallery has launched the first game application for tablets “Landscape. Art constructor”. The app is an exciting educational game that allows designing your ideal landscape, using fragments of works of Russian artist Fyodor Matveyev (1758-1826).

Each user receives a new application opportunity to feel like a true artist and create a gallery of his own work, and then share them with friends.

“Landscape. Art-constructor” is updated and an adapted version of the game for PC “Compose landscape”, issued for the exhibition of Fyodor Matveyev in 2008. The game has won critical acclaim and was appreciated by the audience. The modern format - a mobile application for tablets - used by such museums as the Metropolitan (New York), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Prado (Madrid). “Landscape…” will be the beginning of a series of applications “Art Constructor of the State Tretyakov Gallery”. Next Game – “Still Life” - will be released at the end of November 2015. In September 2015 plans to release another mobile application – “Book of the State Tretyakov Gallery”. It will allow buying and reading electronic publications of the Gallery, the first of which will be a catalog for the exhibition of Valentin Serov.