The project of the exhibition of artistic architectural ceramics in Moscow, 1934–1935. According to the materials of A.V. Filippov archive

Abstract

The article presents materials stored in the archive of the famous researcher, restorer and organizer of ceramic production Alexei Vasilyevich Filippov (1882–1957). They talk about the failed exhibition of artistic architectural ceramics, which was planned to be held in Moscow in 1935 at the State Historical Museum. Documents from the archive of A.V. Filippov and the Department of written sources of State Historical Museum are published for the first time. They allow us to trace the fate of a unique exhibition project and demonstrate the degree of knowledge of architectural ceramics in Russia in the 1930s. The approaches to exhibiting and the composition of the collections of architectural ceramics of the country’s largest museums are characterized.

The role of A.V. Filippov in creating a new museum space, considering the museum not only as a machine for cultural and national identification, but also as an instrument and part of experimental technological progress in the ceramic industry. Filippov believed that museum expositions should play an important role in it.