Information technology and culture: The digitization of unique exhibits of the Bolshoi Theater Museum is continued

In the Bolshoi Theatre Museum (Moscow) is continued the digitization of exhibits. ELAR Corporation completed the conversion into electronic form of three thousand posters of the Soviet period from the museum collection, as well as over ten thousand sketches of theatrical costumes.

"Among scanned sketches created for productions at the Bolshoi, the work of outstanding artists, namely: Konstantin Korovin, Eugene Ponomarev, Simon Virsaladze, Vladimir Dmitriev", - said the museum's director Lydia Kharina. According to Lydia Glebovna, the exhibits are scanned in a format and resolution that will use digital images in account activity for the publication of books, exhibition projects, as well as for filling the future website of the Bolshoi Theatre Museum.

Theatre posters and sketches were scanned on the museum territory. The use of high-quality scan of the brand complexes "ELAR PauerSkan" made it possible to create electronic copies up to A0 format without software linking with an optical resolution of 600 dpi.

"We are cooperating with the Bolshoi Theatre Museum in 2011. Within the joint project was created 3D-electronic collection of unique costumes in electronic format, there were transferred photographs from the museum's collection, handwritten documents, in particular, which belonged to the Great Russian choreographer and teacher Alexander Gorsky. And at every stage of our teamwork an approach to digitization was special", - says the deputy head of department on work with museums of ELAR Corporation Eugene Mokeyev.