Past highlights for schools
7 September - 28 October 2012
Sotheby's Beyond Limits returns again for the annual sculpture exhibition in the garden.
For the first time, Beyond Limits will feature the work of a single artist, the British sculptor Barry Flanagan, RA OBE (1941-2009).
March 2012
Try our new Victorian tour of the House for KS1 and 2, or visit the farmyard to meet our farm animals and their young. Try out new adventure play equipment in the adventure playground or borrow an activity pack to make the most of a walk in the beautiful woodland. Look out for specialist projects and workshops throughout the year. Our bookings team will help you to organise a fantastic day out for your group.
March 2012
The Sir Anthony Caro exhibition saw fifteen steel sculptures sited around the Canal Pond in the garden from 28 March - 1 July 2012.
October 2011
Autumn visits to Chatsworth
Autumn is a fantastic time to visit Chatsworth. A good time to visit the farmyard, why not combine a visit to the animals with some time in the adventure playground or take a walk in our stunning woodland. The autumn colours are a feast on the senses and inspire artistic creativity of colour and shape. The Gardens are looking stunning providing a colourful backdrop to the Sotheby's sculptures.
September 2011
Sotheby's sculptures are in the garden.
Works by more than 20 leading artists from around the world, including René Magritte, Nadim Karam, Takashi Murakami, William Turnbull, Marc Quinn, Ju Ming, Jaume Plensa and Barry Flanagan, will be on display with many showing in the UK for the first time.
June 2011
Sotheby's sculptures return in September...
The dates of Sotheby's Beyond Limits exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture have now been confirmed. The giant sculpture show will return to the garden on 16 September - 31 October 2011.
March 2011
David Hockney painting unveiled...
Parc des Sources, Vichy, by David Hockney is on display at Chatsworth for the first time. Find it in the North Sketch Gallery.
March 2011
New home for a Damien Hirst...
Damien Hirst's St Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain is now at the heart of the baroque Chapel.
March 2011
Family ceramics...
The new display in the China Closet is a fascinating contrast between the collections of the present Duke and his son Lord Burlington, and their ancestor the Countess of Burlington. See 300 year-old Meissen ware and new pieces by Ai Weiwei and Edmund de Waal side by side.
March 2011
New art in the garden...
Laura Ellen Bacon has finished a new willow sculpture in the garden, Forms of Growth. You can find it at the entrance to the Kitchen Garden. Another of her creations, Woven Space, is hidden inside a yew tree near the garden entrance.
April 2010
Eleven generations in one room...
Portraits of every Duke from the 1st to the 11th, with family and friends, are on show together on the Oak Stairs. This spectacular floor-to-ceiling hang covers two floors and unites work by artists including Joshua Reynolds, John Everett Millais (portrait of the 8th Duke, left) and Lucian Freud.
March 2010
See a past and future Duchess face to face...
Michael Craig-Martin's computer portrait of Lady Laura Burlington constantly changes, and will never look the same twice during a lifetime. It hangs beside JohnSinger-Sargent's portrait of Duchess Evelyn, which was painted 108 years earlier, in the new North Sketch Gallery.
