Newseum Internship

The Newseum - Spring Internships (Washington, D.C., U.S.)

Newseum Spring 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 storage center in
Laurel, Maryland (or both). Internship hours are flexible and can be
arranged to fit individual's schedules - 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
pre-opening
- Aiding in the installation and de-installation of exhibited
artifacts
- Compiling information for the new Standard Facilities Report
particularly regarding the environmental conditions/calculations for
each of the galleries
- 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
- For those who already possess or would like to gain archival
experience, there is the opportunity to work on a self-directed archival
project with the Newseum's outstanding 35,000 piece newspaper collection
(this project will take place at the Newseum's storage facility 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.
This internship position is for college credit only.
Application Process
Please email cover letter and resume to mscott@newseum.org.

Maeve Gaynor Scott
Registrar
Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202.292.6327

Posted on November 10, 2009 10:38 AM | Permalink

Jewish Museum of Maryland Internships

The Jewish Museum of Maryland will have several internships available in the winter and spring. Please feel free to distribute this advertisement to interested students. Other internships will be posted in the next few weeks as well.

Winter/Spring 2010 Internship—Collections and Exhibitions Department

The Jewish Museum of Maryland seeks a qualified intern to assist in the Collections and Exhibitions department to work on an upcoming exhibition, Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and Jewish Identity.

JMM interns work closely with museum professionals on various aspects of collections and exhibition research. Tasks may include, but are not limited to: visual and newspaper research for exhibition development, conducting and/or transcribing oral histories, cataloging new donations and loans, processing archival collections, object photography, data entry, digitizing photographic collections, gallery preparation, and artifact handling.

Interested students should be working toward a degree in history, art history, material culture, Jewish studies, museum studies, or archival science. Previous museum or gallery experience is not required.

Housing is not provided.

Winter/Spring internships are unpaid, but may be taken for academic credit. Winter interns generally work full time for 4 weeks during winter break before the start of the spring semester. Spring interns generally work 2 days a week for the full semester.

To apply, please send a cover letter, resume, availability and list of three references to Ms. Karen Falk, Curator, Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore MD 21202 or to kfalk@jewishmuseummd.org. Applications reviewed as received.


Thank you very much for your assistance. Please let me know if you have any questions.
-Jobi Zink




Jobi O. Zink
Sr. Collections Manager
Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

NEW PHONE NUMBER:
(410) 732-6400 ext. 226
jzink@jewishmuseummd.org

Posted on November 4, 2009 4:56 PM | Permalink

Prof. Sandra Herbert's Darwin and Lincoln Lecture

Prof. Sandra Herbert's Darwin and Lincoln Lecture available online.

Posted on November 2, 2009 1:15 PM | Permalink

M.A. Student Barb Morris Wins Travel Grant

The Graduate Student Association awards Barb Morris a $1,000 Travel grant for her thesis project, "Comparative Analysis of Race Relations at Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point Maryland during the Civil Rights Movement" exploiting the DVD “Struggles in Steel” as well as conducting oral history of retired steelworkers. She will be interviewing steelworkers from Bethlehem Steel in Sparrows Point. Barb explains, "I aim is to illustrate how minorities and unions struggled to play a significant role in the ever-changing dynamics of the steel industry. I plan to accomplish this through various methodologies including oral history. I will frame my questions of the working conditions at Beth Steel in reference to the civil rights movement and the assassination of Martin Luther King which will allow the readers of my thesis to contextualize what blacks actually encountered as they tried to gain upward mobility in their place of employment at a period when the country was facing a revolution in race relations. I will be using these funds to travel to Penn State Library as they house some of the archives from Bethlehem Steel. I will also be using these funds to give a small token of appreciation to the retirees for allowing me to interview them."

Posted on October 12, 2009 1:00 PM | Permalink

Julie Oakes

CONGRATULATIONS to Julie Oakes for successfully defending her dissertation, "'Faint Traces and Hints of Color:' The Creation of Japan's National Treasure System." Her successful defense was last week and she will graduate with a doctorate from the University of Chicago on December 11th. Congratulations Dr. Oakes.

Posted on October 5, 2009 1:42 PM | Permalink

Research Grant for Graduate Students

I applied to GSA for research grant to get a role of microfilm copied that can only be found in Boston, Massachusetts! I was approved for the grant WITHIN a day! I have placed my order in with the archives, and it has been received and is being processed! I hope that many other Graduate History Students can take advantage of their research/travel grants.

Faith Wassink
FaithW1@umbc.edu

Posted on October 1, 2009 5:55 PM | Permalink

Russell Spinney successfully defends his dissertation

Congratulations to Russell Spinney on successfully defending his dissertation on 9/30/2009 at Penn State ("A Nation in Peril? How Fear Influenced Everyday Life and Politics in the Weimar Republic.")!

Posted on October 1, 2009 2:54 PM | Permalink

Autumn Gem: China's First Feminist

Autumn Gem: China's First Feminist. 10/13 4:00 pm A. O. Kuhn Gallery.

Posted on September 29, 2009 9:29 AM | Permalink

Faculty Opening

Faculty Opening: U.S.-Asia, tenure-track assistant professor

Posted on September 23, 2009 8:21 AM | Permalink

Newspaper Research Project--Environmental History

Research Assistant: Newspaper Archive Research
Desc: A part-time student assistant position is available at the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education at UMBC to retrieve, sort, organize, and annotate a reference database of online articles and news coverage. This work is part of ongoing research on the development of severe floods on the Red River of the North in North Dakota and Minnesota

Qualifications: Position requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to work independently with limited supervision, and experience with online research tools. Skill and experience with bibliographic software such as EndNotes, and experience with research and organization of archival research databases are strong assets.
Apply: Submit letter of application, current resume and transcript information, and approximate availability for Fall Semester to:

Stuart S. Schwartz Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland 21250
410.455.2748 stu_schwartz@umbc.edu

Posted on September 21, 2009 1:21 PM | Permalink