The ADIT webinar program began in 2020. In the context of the pandemic and the transition of employees to remote work, a lot of questions and problems have arisen - from technical to psychological. At the initiative of Maria Pravdina, a member of the ADIT Presidium and Scientific Secretary of the Totma Museum Association (Vologda Region), the first webinar on the topic "Organization of remote work of employees in quarantine" was held on the Zoom platform.
11 webinars held formed the basis of the online conference "ADIT HOME 2020". Recordings of webinars and conferences are available on the ADIT youtube channel (in Russian).
ADIT club meetings are informal and local events for museum communities. On them, ADIT experts share their experience in automation, informatization and digital transformation of museums. The club is a place for discussions and presentations. The first meeting of the ADIT club took place in November 2007 in Kazan. For 2022 two workshops are planned in Omsk and Perm.
The ADIT Project Workshop is a two or three day workshop for discussing and designing museum communication strategies in the digital age. For the first time, ADIT workshops were held before the ADIT conference in Yelabuga (Tatarstan) in 2016 and then became part of the extended program of the annual ADIT conference: 2017 - Tver, 2018 - Saratov / Engels, 2019 - Yekaterinburg. In 2020, the workshops were held online using the Zoom and Moodle platforms with the support of the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation. in 2021 and 2022 we returned to traditional face-to-face format (Vladivostok, Kaliningrad).
Workshop objectives
The experience gained during the workshops proved to be particularly valuable in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has greatly affected the work of museums around the world. About 40 people from more than 20 regions of Russia took part in the online workshops in 2020.
The main discussion at the 2020 workshops was about how museums have restructured their internal and external communication and how have they activated their external virtual presence? Why, under the lockdown, did museums so quickly master what they had not been able to master for decades and what they had never gotten their hands on? How and why did priorities that seemed unshakable change so quickly? Who and what does the modern online environment of the museum and its environment consist of? How is the audience of the museum changing, which ceases to be predominantly local? How will different museum departments have to restructure their work? How should this affect the formation of the information, communication and digital strategy of the museum and how will it affect professional competencies and the development of the professional sphere?
The workshops combine expert lectures, group work, presentations, discussions and business games. Workshops can be held online, offline at the customer's site or in a mixed format, where part of the audience works remotely, and part - in the classroom.
Agendas for recent workshops (in Russian)
The project idea was proposed by Nikolay and Tatiana Selivanov, founders and heads of the Art Design Workshop.
The children’s museum-educational project “School of Schools” is based on the triad “School – Museum – IT”. The main goal of the project is to develop a methodology for describing, studying, and creatively interpreting authentic museum objects by teenagers. The material that students collect while studying a monument, as well as the knowledge and experience they gain, serve as the necessary scientific foundation for creating a new creative information product. In this format, the first “School of Schools” took place in September 2015 during the ADIT conference in Vologda.
Since 2016, the “School of Schools” project has been carried out together with izi.TRAVEL (now tmatic.travel). Teenagers who participate in studios and clubs at museums develop and record thematic audio guides themselves and upload them to the platform. The participants choose objects or locations, prepare interesting stories about them with the help of curators, draw illustrations, record the stories on a voice recorder or in a studio, and publish the audio guides for public access.
Over the years of the project, thousands of users have used the audio guides, and their feedback shows that the project is in demand and helps everyone, especially children, to get acquainted with museum collections and learn the history of their hometowns.
Audio guides created under the project in 2016–2023 are hosted on the izi.TRAVEL platform.
Yelabuga (ADIT 2016): 3 museum and 2 outdoor guides. Video about the project
Tver (ADIT 2017): museum guide, outdoor tour, and city quest
Saratov (ADIT 2018): museum audio guide and outdoor tour connecting all buildings of the Radishchev Museum
Yekaterinburg (ADIT 2019): 70 interviews with eyewitnesses about life in the 1990s (based on the Yeltsin Center exhibition). Video about the project
Vladivostok (ADIT 2021): guide to the exhibition of the Arsenyev Museum. Video about the project
Kaliningrad (ADIT 2022): 2 quests between the Zoo and the Art Museum
Murmansk (ADIT 2023): guide to the exhibition of the Regional Museum. Video about the project
In 2024, izi.TRAVEL launched a new portal, tmatic.travel, and from that moment all newly created audio guides are published on this platform.
In Omsk, during the ADIT 2024 conference, with financial support from the V. Potanin Charitable Foundation, the following were created for the Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M. A. Vrubel:
audio performance for children “Muzya and Marusya”
audio quest “Researcher of Eras”
Audio guides developed in Krasnoyarsk and Yeniseysk for the XXIX ADIT conference:
“A Journey along Bolshaya Street” – audio performance by the Yeniseysk Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve named after A. I. Kytmanov
“Go, Children, for a Walk in Africa” – by the Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum of Local Lore
“5 Favorite Works of Teenagers” – by the Krasnoyarsk Art Museum named after V. I. Surikov
“Crocodile, Crutch, Hoe” – by the Museum Centre “Ploshchad Mira”
4 audio guides developed in Arkhangelsk, Kargopol, and Solvychegodsk for the XXX ADIT conference:
“Solvychegodsk. The Beginning. The Stroganovs” – by the Solvychegodsk Museum
“Kargopol Boasts: Young Guides Show the Town” – by the Kargopol Museum
“To the Last Century and Back. A Walk Without a Time Machine” – by the Arkhangelsk Museum of Local Lore
“Life in Five Paintings: A Journey Through Time” – by the Museum Association “Artistic Culture of the Russian North”
Project coordinator from ADIT – Tatyana Nikolaeva
From tmatic.travel (ex. izi.TRAVEL) – Oxana Turskaya
By the way, you don’t have to wait for the conference to implement such a project at your own venue.
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2002-2013 / by Viktor Stepanov (Museums of Moscow Kremlin)
2014-2020 / Aleksandr Artamonov (sitefolio.ru).