Before the Boom: A Digital Exhibition in the Making
For nearly a year we closed our collections to researchers while we undertook the mammoth task of moving out of our Old Aberdeen House site (read more here ). During this time, we were unable to share our wonderful collections as well as we wanted to. When we reopened our search room for research visits, we also wanted to think about other ways to promote the vast and fascinating collections in our care. Exhibitions are an obvious way to do this, but our service doesn't have a dedicated exhibition space (on our wish list for the future!). We do utilise the spaces of Aberdeen Art Gallery through our colleagues there (you may have seen our most recent Aberdeen Harbour Board exhibition in Gallery 2), but we felt a digital exhibition would also allow more flexibility to reach those people unable to visit us in Aberdeen. Below is some information about how our service created our new digital exhibition: "Before the Boom". From May through August 2025, two of our team began th...
