the New crowdsourcing project “Cultural heritage: Know Moscow” will be held. Participants will be able to share ideas development portal um.mos.ru and mobile applications “Discover Moscow”.
As noted by the Moscow Government Minister, head of Department of information technology, Eduard Lysenko, interactive guide “Discover Moscow” enjoys great popularity among residents and guests of the capital.
the expert crowdsourcing project will include the head of the Department of cultural heritage Alexey Emelyanov, as well as the curator of it projects in the sphere of culture and business, Department of information technologies Sergey Sacral.
“amid growing interest of Muscovites to the history of our city the services of the portal “Learn Moscow”, of course, must be relevant and useful. It is therefore important to involve the citizens in developing this really important resource,” said Aleksei Yemelyanov.
the Portal “Learn Moscow” is a joint project of the city government departments of information technology, culture, cultural heritage, education and science. Interactive guide to the city attractions contains descriptions of more than two thousand buildings and structures, 644 monuments, museums, 328, 233 streets, parks, boulevards, and information about 208 historical figures 128 and topical routes. You can walk around the capital with theatrical figures, Sergei Garmash, Irina Apeksimova, Polina Kutepova and Eugene Kamenkovich, cosmonaut Alexander by Levakina and other known persons, to participate in a unique interactive quest to experience the history of the capital through an audio guide. Researchers and lovers of themed routes invite you to walk on Pasternak places or traces of great women, to see the capital through the eyes of Mayakovsky and Vladimir Vysotsky, know Pushkin Moscow, Christmas and even dance.
One of the most popular services on the portal are virtual tours — they give you the opportunity to walk around the buildings to which access is normally restricted.
And for fans of quizzes on the portal are collected 66 quests. Among them, the online quest on the places where was filmed the famous Soviet comedies. Answering the questions of the virtual game, users will learn where she studied the heroine of the film “Come tomorrow” Frosya Burlakova and what street admired Ivan the terrible from the balcony of flats in one of the scenes of the film “Ivan Vasilyevich changes profession.” Recently the portal also appeared quest of sightseeing of different cities of Russia.
Users can participate in the development of the project, to add information on cultural objects. A mobile app “Discover Moscow” allows you to do around the city even more convenient. You can download it from App Store and Google Play.
