Case: Production of the Interactive Immersive Exhibit “LETTERS FROM THE FRONT” Based on an Arduino Hardware Platform for the “GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941–1945” Hall of the District Historical and Local Lore Museum in Dinskaya.
Location: Dinskaya, Dinsky District, Krasnodar Krai, Russia
Client: Budgetary Cultural Institution of the Dinsky District Municipal Formation “Historical and Local Lore Museum” (BUK DIM)
Objective:
Develop an immersive exhibit for the “GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941–1945” hall that allows museum visitors to experience the atmosphere of this challenging period in the country’s history.
Solution:
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The concept proposed using professional voices to narrate real letters from the front, packaging this content into a 1940s telephone device, and integrating it into an interior closely resembling an apartment from that era.
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The exhibit workflow was developed as follows:
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The visitor enters the room, where several family photos are displayed on the walls, and sits at a table.
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When the visitor lifts the telephone receiver, one of the portraits “comes to life,” and the letter text appears over historical war footage while a synchronized narrator’s voice plays through the receiver.
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After listening, the receiver is placed back on the telephone, and the system returns to inactive mode.
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Lifting the receiver again triggers a new letter to be presented.
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An Arduino-based system was used to synchronize and control content playback.
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The system underwent testing, and the “room” design was developed and approved. Content production, recording, and processing of narrator voices were completed, followed by delivery and installation of the software-hardware complex at the technical location within the Budgetary Cultural Institution of the Dinsky District “Historical and Local Lore Museum.”
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The exhibit was tested and successfully launched in the “GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941–1945” hall of the museum.
