![]() One of the biggest challenges for the curators was working on an exhibition that will have to travel around the world – it will be opening in New York in October 2018. “You have to plan the route very far ahead of time measure all the doorways.” ![]() “It didn’t go through many of the doors,” Tanya said. “We had to have a special case made for it, because it didn’t fit in any of our other cases.”Īnother challenging piece is a huge celestial globe, dating from 1693, which depicts the constellations. Tanya explained that it can’t often be displayed because it takes four people to lift it. This means the book is the size of the largest bird included – 3 ¼ feet (1m) tall. One of the books in the exhibition is John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, featuring illustrations of every native bird in America, drawn at full size. The exhibition involves a number of artefacts that have never been on display before because they’re so difficult to handle. ![]() We visited the British Library to talk to co-curator Tanya Kirk about the challenges of putting on the exhibition, the pioneering elements of the project, and the magical experience of curating material about one of the world’s biggest book series. It also offers a fantastic chance to see some of the British Library’s most rare, historic, and difficult-to-display items. ![]() It is a much anticipated showcase of Harry Potter artefacts, including many from the vaults of Bloomsbury and J.K. Last Friday the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition opened at the British Library. ![]()
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