We at Wargaming love history.
It’s part of our DNA.
We work with lots of Tank Museums around the world.
This particular museum, the Swedish Tank Museum,
was critical in helping us getting the Swedish tanks into the game.
Once you've played them, the next logical step
is to come here and experience the real thing.
Hello and welcome to the Swedish Tank Museum.
I'm on a very special tank that you're going to see in the game soon enough.
This will be driving around later today,
but before that,
we are here to open the Wargaming.net zone inside the Museum.
Up here we want to achieve three things.
Firstly there's the History. Up here, you can watch and enjoy
the historical documentaries about the real tanks.
Secondly, there's the experience.
And what better place to put this than in the real environment,
in a museum where you can see what the real tanks look like
and get up close and personal to them.
And thirdly, of course, there's the gameplay
and the fun aspect to this.
You can take this tanks,
put them into the virtual world and enjoy them.
I just managed to catch up with Victor Kislyi in the gaming zone.
We cooperate with this fantastic museum.
We made this gaming zone,
so now the visitors of this museum
not only can watch and look at those dozens of really, really cool tanks,
but also can play World of Tanks; what they are doing now.
They are testing Swedish tanks.
I have just finished my ride in this tank.
Everyone in the mud,
doing this and this and rotating, this police turns.
Amazing! I can't wait to see it in the game.
We didn't do cruise speed, I mean, it wasn't on full speed,
this is a really, really cool tank.
I can guess that for this kind of terrain,
that's probably the best.
When it's going up and down, can you feel it?
Well, it was smooth.
I saw like three, six down there,
but even one person can actually maintain and operate this tank.
Which is very impressive,
I have no words. I can't wait, when it's officially released in 9.17.
I'm getting it.
This is a fairly new museum,
we've been around for five years,
and for us it's important to attract,
especially kids, teenagers and young adults.
And I think the type of activity we did here today
is perfect for that purpose.
I think to activate them in a computer game
that shows the big variety of tanks out there
and can wake up their interest in tanks and armoured vehicles is perfect;
both for attracting people to the museum but also to sell the story we are trying to tell.
I think it is very important for us to tell the world today
what we have done during the last 100 years,
with all these equipment, tanks, and weapons
that we have created for one purpose;
and that is to kill each other.
And to reflect
why are we doing this and why have we done this,
so we can perhaps stop doing it for the future.
So, this is a part of our history
that we are standing within today.
And, another thing is that we have a museum
that could attract people that normally don't go to museums.
So they could be interested in history from a different angle.
And maybe they can learn more about other things
thanks to history in general.
What do you feel are some of the benefits
of working with a company like Wargaming?
I think it's quite interesting,
because what you can give us as a museum
is a technology,
and you have different aspects in creating something interesting
for a public that we don't necessarily have in the museum.
And we have the vehicles themselves,
and the combination is really interesting.
So we hope that we will have
another audience from this that we normally have.
The community event has been fantastic, the reaction incredible.
And all the tanks and everything here is beautiful.
If you haven't already, come to the Swedish Tank Museum when you get a chance.
That's it for today, I'll see you next time.