CHATSWORTH HOUSE Sarah Jackman, Christ Church, Masters-level student, MSt History of Art and Visual Cultures, In-person internship Work Projects During my internship I helped to kickstart Chatsworth House's involvement with Google Arts and Culture, a digital platform that allows organisations to easily share their collections. I selected and collated metadata relating to items and artworks from the Chatsworth and wider Devonshire collection, I researched the chosen works and created interpretations to be published online and I developed in-house guidelines for future users of the platform. This involved problem solving to work out how to link related items for display together. This work resulted in over 70 items, being uploaded ready for online publication, soon to be seen on the Chatsworth House Google Arts and Culture page. Though there was Daily Life Daily life involved wandering down from the 18th century stable block where I was living onsite through the golden gates of Chatsworth, signing in with the ever-cheery staff at the lodge and weaving my way through the back corridors of the North Wing (built by the 6th Duke of Devonshire) up to the Birds Landing where a large number of the collections department were based. Here, settled at a computer in an open landing space I was surrounded by four offices containing the collections, exhibition and archive team. Alongside me were volunteers, a bust of Mr Darcy from the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film, filmed at Chatsworth and a PhD student researching the development of the North Wing and theatre space. I was quickly introduced to the whole team who flit between offices to discuss upcoming exhibitions, Christmas at Chatsworth and more. This involved members of the conservation team, the textile team, collections individuals and the wider archival team like Frankie who was working to catalogue the six main collections of the Chatsworth archives including works by Thomas Hobbes. My first week also involved a whole team meeting and individual
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