Project

Aktobe Regional History and Local Lore Museum

A multilingual website for one of the oldest cultural institutions in the Aktobe region, featuring a virtual 3D tour

Актюбинский областной историко-краеведческий музей Completed
Aktobe Regional History and Local Lore Museum
Task

Client brief

The museum traces its origins to a travelling exhibition in 1929 and over nearly a century has grown into a true treasury of the region — with collections spanning archaeology, ethnography, numismatics, fine and applied arts. 11 halls: the Nature Hall, Archaeology Hall, Hall of the Kazakh Khanate, Hall of Heroism and Glory, the Gold Hall, Ethnography Hall, and more. The package included: a trilingual website (Kazakh, Russian, English) with independent content blocks, a detailed exhibitions section (each of the 11 halls with descriptions, photos, and navigation), integration with a virtual 3D tour, a news and events block with a CMS for staff, sections for academic publications and collections, photo and video galleries, a low-vision accessibility mode, SEO with verification in Google and Yandex, and an interactive map with directions. The site gained a modern digital presence worthy of the institution's historical significance.
Outcome

What we shipped

Launched a trilingual website with a CMS for non-technical staff; digitised and showcased all 11 exhibition halls; integrated a virtual 3D tour; implemented accessibility support for visually impaired users; configured SEO optimisation.
Solution

How we did it

Working with the Aktobe museum was a true immersion in the history of the region. From the very first meetings it was clear: the team was engaged, passionate, and meticulous about detail. The research staff knew every exhibit by heart, and we needed to create a tool that opened up this world rather than simplifying it. The main challenge was multilingualism. The task was not simply to translate texts, but to build three fully independent information environments — each tailored to its own audience. At the same time, we worked through the architecture of the exhibitions: each of the 11 halls required its own logic for presentation and navigation. A separate challenge was integrating the virtual tour — a technically non-trivial solution that required careful attention to load speed and cross-device compatibility. We spent considerable time on optimisation before the result satisfied us. In the end, the site became one of the most feature-rich cultural portals in the region. The project concluded with positive feedback from the client and, importantly, genuine growth in audience engagement.

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