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Newseum Fall Internship
Are you looking for an exciting internship that will provide you with the skills necessary to help you obtain full-time museum employment? If so, the Newseum’s Collections Internship is for you!

The Newseum, a revolutionary 250,000-square-foot museum of news, offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. At the Newseum, we pride ourselves on creating up-to-the minute exhibits and actively collecting modern and historic artifacts.

As a Newseum intern you can work at our museum downtown or our state-of-the-art Newseum Support Center in Laurel, Maryland …or both. Internship hours are flexible and can be arranged to fit your schedule - this can include morning and weekend work. You will be a member of the small, dynamic Collections team and will be able to make an enormous contribution to the work we do. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain Collections experience and be involved in the day-to-day operations of one of Washington, D.C.’s most popular museums!

Intern responsibilities will include, but are not limited to assisting Registrars and Collections Specialists with the following tasks:

- Daily monitoring and recording of environmental conditions (temperature, relative humidity, lighting, etc.) in gallery spaces

- Processing donations and incoming loans, including cataloging artifacts in database
- Monitoring and reporting on exhibition conditions as they pertain to exhibited collections
- Assisting with the cleaning of exhibits and artifacts on display
- Aiding in the installation and de-installation of exhibited artifacts
- Helping with basic artifact conservation
- If time and interest permits, short-term, independent research projects related to the collection can be designed

Newspaper archives internship project
Interested in gaining or increasing your archival experience? We have an opportunity to work on an archival project with the Newseum’s outstanding 35,000 piece print news (newsbooks, periodicals and newspapers) collection. This project will take place at the Newseum Support Center in Laurel, MD.

For all internship opportunities:
Experience/Skills
Candidates should possess basic computer skills, an interest in collections/registration work, and the ability to lift 30 pounds.

Timing/Duration/Pay
Internships last for a minimum of 12 weeks and may be part or full time. Fall internships will start by September 14, 2009. This internship position is for college credit only.

Application Process
Please email cover letter and resume to mscott@newseum.org.