AMAZING STORIES OF CRIMEA

Design and layout of the catalogue

Lera Guevska

Texts

Alim Aliev, Oleksa Haiworonski, Olga Melnyk, Olena Onogda, Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Anna Pohribna, Svitlana Tsurkan, Viktoriya Velichko

Ukrainian copyediting and proofreading

Larysa Minchenko, Oksana Schur

English translation

Christina Kuzmych

Photos

Maksym Bilousov, Oleksandr Popenko

Printing supervisor

Anna Zatelepa

During the preparation of the exhibition, together with our partners we tried to overcome the main challenge of the project—how to create an exhibition about Crimea without Crimean materials. The most famous collections, which include iconic historical rarities and outstanding artistic works, remain in annexed territory. At the request of Mystetskyi Arsenal, museums in mainland Ukraine—from Kharkiv to Lviv—went through their collections for items of Crimean origin or related to Crimean subject matter.

Altogether, along with museum staff, we reviewed more than two thousand items, only a portion of which are presented in the exhibition. This was an extremely interesting experience that created an integrated picture of the interaction between the Crimean and mainland collections, which complement each other. The results were unexpected—sometimes the stories around the objects were no less fascinating than the objects themselves. These amazing legends about the exhibit items are presented in this book.

Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kyiv, 2019