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Ketevan Chitashvili

Specialist of Cash Circulation and Currency Production

Money Museum of the National Bank of Georgia

Country: Georgia

ITP Year: 2019

Biography

Ketevan’s main responsibilities as a Specialist of Cash Circulation and Currency Production at the National Bank of Georgia include promoting numismatics from the bank’s collection, tour guiding and participating in the manufacturing process. She is also responsible for public engagement and collection care.

Ketevan’s work constitutes archival and field research on currencies, collections management, exhibition content planning and establishing themes and designing catalogues. She also assists with the process of acquiring new objects for the collection, including selecting appropriate objects, conducting research, documenting and completing acquisition records. Ketevan holds a degree in Management and Administration (accounting minor) and she is interested in the economic history of Georgia.

At the British Museum

During her time on the International Training Programme Ketevan was based in the Department of Coins and Medals and her partner placement was spent at Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum and Whitworth Art Gallery.

In 2019 participants were asked to plan and propose a temporary exhibition around an object from the Museum’s collection working within the theme of journeys. Ketevan worked with Ciprian-Mircea Dobra (Romania) on her Object in focus project. Their exhibition proposal was titled The Never-Ending Journey of Life.

Ketevan’s place on the International Training Programme was generously supported by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust.

ITP Newsletter Publications
ITP Newsletter 9 (2022) Collection in focus: How Georgian numismatics responded to the challenge of climate change