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The Museum of Modern Art offers several types of internships: Fall
and Spring Internships, a Spring
Internship in Publishing, Summer
Internships, and Twelve-Month
Internships. Descriptions of each of these internships follow
below. (Note that MoMA also offers a separate High
School Internship Program with its own eligibility requirements
and application procedure.) We do not offer internships
other than those described below. We can only accommodate interns
who are able to work during our designated program terms, as indicated
below.
Fall and Spring Internships
Fall and spring internships require a minimum commitment of two
days per week (one of which must be Tuesday) and are unpaid. These
internships are offered during the school year, coinciding with
the fall and spring semesters. Fall and spring internships are ideal
for registered students who require internship or practicum credits,
but students need not receive credit if they do not wish to do so.
Fall Internships
Length Twelve weeks
Required Commitment Two days a week minimum (full-time
optional). In order to attend all internship lectures and programs,
one workday must be Tuesday.
Eligibility College students (third and fourth
year), graduate students, international students, and beginning
professionals may apply. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse
backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend No stipends are available
Dates of upcoming 2008 term September 15–December
5, 2008
Dates of 2009 term September 14–December
4, 2009
Spring Internships
Length Twelve weeks
Required commitment Two days a week minimum (full-time
optional). In order to attend all internship lectures and programs,
one workday must be Tuesday
Eligibility College students (third and fourth
year), graduate students, international students, and beginning
professionals may apply. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse
backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend No stipends are available, with the exception
of one paid Spring Internship position in Publishing, the Carole
Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship (see below).
Dates of upcoming 2009 term February 2–April
24, 2009
Spring Internship in Publishing:
Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship
The Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship is a full-time, twelve-week,
paid internship. Working with curators and editors on a forthcoming
museum publication, the intern's tasks may range from research,
writing, editing, and design, to printing and publication.
Length Twelve weeks
Required commitment Full time (Monday–Friday,
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Recent graduates, graduate students,
international students, and beginning professionals may apply
Dates of upcoming 2009 term February 2–April
24, 2009
Summer Internships: The
Helena Rubinstein Summer Internship Program
The Helena Rubinstein Summer Internship Program is a full-time,
ten-week, paid internship. During the summer, weekly lectures with
the Museum's professional staff are supplemented by field trips
to other museums, galleries, foundations, corporate collections,
private collections, alternative spaces, nonprofit organizations,
and artists' studios. These visits provide interns with opportunities
to examine the roles, functions, and activities of a wide range
of art professionals and institutions. A small group of summer interns
will also be selected to participate in a lecturer program that
provides training in researching, writing, and delivering a gallery
talk to the general public. Participants take part in weekly two-hour
sessions in which they learn about pedagogical approaches, present
research and writing on works in the collections, and deliver mock
tours to internship colleagues. After a comprehensive training program,
interns have the opportunity to deliver gallery talks to the general
public during regular Museum hours. There are no unpaid volunteer
internships during the summer.
Length Ten weeks
Required commitment Full time (Monday–Friday,
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Students must be undergraduates with
at least incoming junior standing (or have recently graduated) or
be currently registered graduate students (or have recently completed
coursework). International students or recent graduates may apply.
Please note that junior standing is roughly equivalent to having
completed at least one-half of an undergraduate degree. The Museum
encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines
to apply.
Stipend $3,000 (award based on available funding)
Dates of upcoming 2009 term June 1–August
7, 2009
Twelve-Month Internships
Full-time, twelve-month internships with stipends are offered for
recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career
whose academic and/or professional experience combines art history
with one or more of the following areas: arts administration, museum
studies, arts management, development, studio art or related studies.
The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring
and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions
for the interns to attend a national conference of their choice.
At the end of the internship, interns may seek career planning and
job placement counseling from the Internship Coordinators and the
Department of Human Resources. Twelve-month internships provide
training in specific museum fields through close work with a professional
staff member, familiarity with modern and contemporary art through
seminars and discussions, and an educational program that exposes
interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole and considers the
role of museums in the broader cultural context. Twelve-month interns
will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver
public gallery talks about the Museum’s permanent collection.
Length Twelve months beginning in mid-September
Required commitment Full-time (Monday–Friday,
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Recent graduates of bachelor’s
or master’s degree programs. The Museum encourages candidates
from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend Awarded based on available funding ($22,000)
plus standard health benefits, two weeks paid vacation, and additional
$1,000 to cover travel expenses and registration fees for one approved
professional conference
Dates of upcoming 2008–09 term September
15, 2008–September 11, 2009
Dates of 2009–10 term September 13, 2009–September
10, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art Archives—Dedalus
Fellow
The Museum Archives of The Museum of Modern Art announces the availability
of a two-year fellowship, generously funded by the Dedalus Foundation.
The fellowship provides training and valuable experience in art
history and art archives, research and museum administration, and
an advanced understanding of the artist Robert Motherwell.
The Dedalus Fellow's duties fall into three broad categories:
1. The Fellow is responsible for a project to conserve and reformat
rare and fragile sound recordings of conversations with or lectures
by Robert Motherwell. This includes working with an outside audio
preservation laboratory. In addition, the Fellow will be responsible
for processing MoMA archival audio, as well as working with select
unprocessed collections of archival documents to prepare inventories
and perform routine preservation work.
2. The Fellow assists the Museum Archives staff with general reference
and research functions, basic preservation tasks, and the daily
activities of this extremely active department. The Museum Archives
includes over 4,500 linear feet of important primary source material
and responds to over 3,000 research requests annually.
3. The Fellow will be a member of the Museum's Twelve-Month Internship
Program and will participate in Internship meetings and events.
Twelve-month interns are college graduates who are interested in
pursuing a museum career and whose academic and/or professional
experience combines art history with one or more of the following
areas: arts administration, museum studies, arts management, education,
development, studio art, or related studies. The focused departmental
training is integrated with an educational program that orients
interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole, and helps them
to think about the role of museums in a broader cultural context
through an active lecture series and site visits. The Fellow will
also be offered the opportunity to participate in an intensive Gallery
Talk Training Program.
The stipend for the position is $24,000 in the first year, $26,000
in the second. In addition, the intern will receive $1,000 annually
for travel to an approved professional conference. Benefits include
health insurance and three weeks paid vacation per year. The Dedalus
Fellowship is a full-time position, Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30
p.m.
Interested applicants should complete a standard Internship. Program
application
form. Please indicate on your application form that
you are applying for the position of Dedalus Fellow (and
disregard the Term Dates and Departmental Choices sections of the
application).
Please note: Because of J-1 visa restrictions,
only US citizens may apply for this position.
The position will begin September 15, 2008. Please
submit your completed application by June 30, 2008 to:
Internship Coordinator
Department of Education
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019
If you have any further questions please contact Larissa Bailiff
at (212) 408-8440 or internships@moma.org.
More questions? Visit the Frequently
Asked Questions page.
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