Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia and Susan Reed

摘要

The idea of a special issue of Alexandria on exhibitions in libraries and archives seemed to us to be an obvious continuation of our work on the exhibition at the British Library Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths (April-August 2017). The exhibition that we curated together was part of the British Library's cultural and engagement programme, so it was a large-scale project that involved many specialists in the Library (exhibition team, interpretation officers, project managers, conservators, image studio specialists, press office, development office, social media team, loans registry, to name just a few) and externally (space and graphics designers, designers of digital products, builders, transportation companies, etc.). Our curatorial work was well supported by colleagues who were highly qualified in their areas of expertise. Moreover, this exhibition was not our first experience of exhibition curating. However, we still found our exhibition project challenging and after it had finished felt a desire to reflect on our experience1 and compare it to what was happening in other libraries.