Audio Storytelling as an Instrument of Participation in Museum Practices (Project for the Leo Tolstoy State Museum)

Today museums are the places for experiments, with direct dialogue with the audience. This is facilitated by a huge number of multimedia implementations - screens, interactive exhibits that you can touch. Audio guide is the most popular interaction with the visitor. Audio and audio-visual storytelling is actively developing in museums nowdays- when you do not just hear the story about each individual exhibit, but get into “a certain world”, listen to a story that combines all these exhibits and carries a certain meaning. In this work we will talk about audio storytelling as an instrument of interaction (participation) with the audience on the example of Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow. The main aim of this museum is to attract an audience between the ages of 18 and 40. For that we created several modern media formats that should attract the desired audience.