Information technology and culture: Volunteers of the Hermitage to create 3D-model of the destroyed Palmyra

The State Hermitage Museum will create a virtual model of the destroyed Palmyra to the exhibition dedicated to the cultural heritage of Syria. This was announced by the Director General of the museum Mikhail Piotrovsky.

"Now, in many museums around the world are made virtual restorations of Palmyra, and in the Hermitage the volunteers also create such a project to the official exhibition devoted to Syria. Volunteers create 3D-ready restoration of monuments", - said Mikhail Piotrovsky.

The virtual reconstruction will be based on the preserved historical and contemporary images of ancient ruins - the colonnades and the remains of the magnificent temples.

According to the director of the Hermitage, the model will recreate Palmyra at the time before the destruction. To reconstruct views of the ancient city since his heyday is not planned.

Virtual model of Palmyra will be a kind of visual aid for studying the ruined monument.

M. Piotrovsky stressed that preserved in museums around the world exhibits of Palmyra has now acquired a special significance. Palmyra Hermitage collection includes ten funerary reliefs, fragments of sculptures and small objects – tesserae and coins. The pride of the collection - Palmyra Customs Tariff (large plate with an inscription in Greek and Aramaic).