Virtual Museum of Roman Shukhevych

The project to virtualize the Roman Shukhevych Museum in Bilohorshcha started long before the destruction of the physical building. Back in 2021, our team, in cooperation with the Lviv Historical Museum and with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, began the process of digitizing museum exhibits and created several high-quality panoramic images of the premises. These materials became extremely important after the museum was completely destroyed by a Russian attack on January 1, 2024. The loss of this unique historical site prompted our team and the museum team to work even more actively to preserve the memory of the museum in a digital format and make it accessible to a wide audience from all over the world.

The project was implemented in several stages. The initial works began back in 2021 when the Skeiron team scanned a number of museum exhibits in detail and created panoramic images of the museum halls. Following the devastating attack in January 2024, scanning of the ruins was promptly carried out using a high-precision photogrammetric method to document the actual state of the destroyed museum. All this data, along with additionally digitized exhibits and available archival materials of the museum, was used in late 2024 – early 2025 to create a fully-fledged interactive 3D tour. The virtual tour was supplemented with an audio guide, detailed descriptions of the exhibits, and the ability to compare the state of the museum before and after the destruction.