The installation combines a rare carriage named after a French engineer Camille Polonceau with a multi-screen video wall moving along. The video demonstrates inner space of a private premium carriage used by prominent Soviet officials. Historically accurate shooting is combined with CGI. Video content is accurately synchronized with video wall movement, so that a physical carriage standing next to a visitor a provides a glance at one of historical episodes that may have happened inside.
The largest railway museum complex in the country – about 57 000 m². The Russian Railway Museum was opened on October 30, 2017, the day of 180th anniversary of Russian railways. The Museum tends to preserve and study history of the railways and its impact on Russian history; to cover historical events and tell a story of railway professions and technologies development. The Museum is placed in the centre of St. Petersburg near one of the oldest railway terminals – Baltiysky. Exposition occupies the historic building of the locomotive depot and workshops of the Peterhof Railway, new building and open museum area.