Kubinka Memory Lane Museum deploys 180 Barco's laser phosphor projectors

With a tour 1,5 km. interactive and immersive visual installations that evoke scenes from the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union.

The new complex of the Memory Lane Museum by Kubinka (Russia) pays tribute to the millions of Soviet soldiers and citizens who fought in the Great Patriotic War, also known as the Eastern Front of World War II.

Located in the heart of Patriot Park, This museum has become a military-themed tourist attraction about the exploits of the Russian people, surrounding the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ), analyzed in Digital AV, and in an example for other organizations that want to surprise their visitors with visual storytelling..

with 1,5 km. of visual installations that evoke scenes of war in an immersive experience, The museum has 35 Galleries and showrooms to offer an interactive educational tour to its visitors that is based on the firm's projection technology ship.

This museum complex has 1.418 Steps – in memory of the 1.418 days and nights of battle during the Great Patriotic War – and its tour poses a detailed history of each day of the war through the graphic timeline of the exhibition.

To carry out this ambitious visualization project, Those responsible for the museum turned to the Russian integrator Avilex for the installation of audiovisual equipment for Alexey Samokhin, Creative Director of the company, "It has been an unparalleled technological challenge".

As this manager explains, "Although we are used to working with the main brands in the sector in large facilities, The biggest challenge of this project was the tight deadline.. In mid-February 2020 We saw that we would need more than a hundred projectors and that the project was expected to be completed in May 2020, and Barco was the only visualization provider that could do it.".

With the forecast that the museum would open its doors on 9 May 2020, Its inauguration had to be postponed until the 22 of June due to the COVID-19 pandemic, period in which the teams of Avilex and Barco worked together tirelessly.

"The role of the distributor Auvix it was also crucial," Samokhin recalls., ensuring the fastest and safest delivery within the tight deadline, and made sure all facilities were completed on time, even before the initial opening date".

The Memory Lane Museum complex is as monumental as it is visually diverse.: The exhibition consists of 35 Immersive galleries and showrooms, Three panoramic cinemas, Two audiovisual tunnels, Rest areas and a welcome area.

"We wanted to meet the client's creative requirements., but also that the configurations of the 180 projectors deployed were as uniform as possible for ease of maintenance. We were able to meet all the requirements with a mix of laser phosphor projectors from the Barco G60 series and F70 models., F80 and F90", Samokhin points out.

Avilex and Barco have created quite a few facilities for the museum, such as one with a German aircraft that had crashed using a map projection using the G60 model.

This projector has also been installed in the five panoramic rooms of the museum, equipped with 180º projection screens to create a dynamic and immersive background.

The museum also uses a four-channel dome projection system., with Barco F80 models, in the room called 'Battle for the Caucasus', for which it has been built in a physical and rocky scenario.

Among the facilities that have been a technological challenge for both companies are three 'total immersion' rooms, each with a specific theme around a key moment of the war, with 360º projection and a screen located on the ceiling.

"At first we had no idea how we could operate this facility because of the limited space and the construction of the rooms," explains Samokhin.. The compact projector Barco F70, combined with an ultra-short throw lens, offered the right solution".

The museum also includes movie theaters, in which three Barco F80 projectors have been installed that offer images with a resolution of 4K UHD. "The entire installation is a piece of art and technology that can serve as an example for museum projects around the world", concludes Samokhin.

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