Garden Historian May-August, 2013
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library —
Winterthur, DE
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is the former estate of H.F. du Pont with 60 acres of naturalistic garden set within a 1000 acres of woods, meadows & streams amid the rolling hills of Delaware's Brandywine Valley. Appealing to a wide audience of tourists, culture seekers, and avid horticulturists, the Winterthur Garden is a historic and rare example of a "wild garden". The Garden Historian Intern will focus on organizing the histroical documentation for the restoration of the Reflecting Pool, East Terrace and Glade. This inrern will also photo document the current site conditions of those areas. The intern will prep all garden restoration files for archiving. This will include organizing and scanning documents and photographs and identifying missing information.