Я здесь: Марий Эл

Customer info

Ministry of Culture, Press and Ethnic Affairs of the Republic of Mari El, represented by T.Evseev National Museum of the Mari El republic. The museum is the сhief keeper of the history  and culture of the unique Mari people. It has a rich collection  of items and materials on the history, nature,ethnography, culture of the Mari region.

The museum has

— over 5 thousand items in the numismatic collection.
— 3 large treasures.
— over 60 thousand items in the Archive and Manuscript section.

technologies

The application uses the augmented reality technology and navigation. The key technologies are Image recognition, AR. The app is developed for two mobile platforms: iOS and Android. The development technologies used are Swift, Kotlin, React, NestJS.

Challenge

In 2020, the Mari El Republic celebrates its 100th anniversary. For this event the museum has prepared a project about this land «Mari Land: Charm of Russia». This is a presentation album in a trilogy form, telling about the culture of the Mari people and the history of establishing the Mari region. It is a grant project.

The presentation album was to be presented in digital format. A the grand project discussion stage they thought about releasing a DVD version. Just imagine, the XXI century and DVD. Gee!
So the customers changed their mind, as they highly appreciated the work done to collect and systematize information about Mari El. They wanted to create something modern and useful, something that would be available for everyone in a convenient form.

idea

The customer was interested in augmented reality technology in analogy with  the Pokemon Go game. It became the key idea to design the app to «catch» the city sights. This is how the idea  of an application was born, where users can interact with with the environment using AR.

tasks

1. Develop the design
2. Implement
— sightseeing catalog with detailed description
— viewing available touristic routes
— adding favorite places and routes to the favorites
— augmented reality navigation
— interactive viewing information in the augmented reality mode
— interaction with the printed version of the sights presentation guide in the augmented reality mode
— viewing media in the augmented reality mode: 3D-objects, bird's-eye panoramas, video- and photo gallery
3. Test and publish the application in catalogues

feedback

Vladimir Petukhov,
Head of the IT Department
T. Evseev National Museum

The «I'm here: Mari El» app has become an interactive part of a big and a very important project for the Republic of Mari El to celebrate its 100th anniversary. T.Evseev National Museum has prepared  a project about our land "Mari Land: the Charm of Russia". It is a presentation album, the trilogy telling about the culture of the Mari people and the history  of the Mari region. We understood that the album couldn't be seen by every resident of Mari El. And we had a great desire to make it accessible  for everyone: to admire the beauty of our picturesque republic, to learn interesting facts. And then there came the idea to modernize this project  and put it into mobile phones. After all, everyone has gadgets nowadays.  Of course, we are very lucky, that Yoshkar-Ola city has a large variety of IT companies, very strong IT industry. We’ve chosen Citronium as they create very interesting projects. We were impressed by the expertise in different fields, from culture, education and medicine to construction. Plus, we were limited  in budget and together we managed to find the best solution. We are very satisfied with the result. The work on the project was also appreciated  by the government of the republic. The head of the region, Alexander Evstifeev, became a user of the application «I am here: Mari El». In the future we are going to continue cooperation with Citronium.