The Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve

The Krasnaya Gorka Museum-Reserve is a unique historical and architectural museum of industrial history, created on the site of a foreign labor colony — the brainchild of the Communist International. The main exposition of the museum «How Russia grew with the Kuzbass» illuminates a whole layer of not only Russian, but also world history.

Objective: to develop a website for the state museum that will increase interest in museum exhibits and its history. At the same time, it is important to maintain the fundamental character of the state object and not to go into an entertainment format.

We conceived the site in colors close to Soviet posters to reflect the mood of that time. The heading font we took is recognizable and memorable, but not universally used. To attract a younger and more creative audience to the museum website, we have developed a number of collage illustrations. We partly relied on the style of pop art, albeit a little later, but conveying some of the spirit of that time