For 60 years, the artist Mikhail Shemyakin has been creating his "Imaginary Museum", where he explores the interrelationships in art of all times and peoples. About the archive, which was hidden from outside eyes in a French castle until 2023, about the project that combines art and technology, the author himself, the project managers and curators, Big Data ideologists, IT specialists and employees of the Tretyakov Gallery, where an exhibition dedicated to the "Imaginary Museum" opened at the end of June 2023.