Museum Positions
Posted July 2, 2025
Job Description The Whitney’s Academic Year Internship program offers a semester-long paid internship for undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited academic program. The internship is hybrid, with some onsite work. For Fall 2025, interns commit between 16–21 hours per week over 10–12 weeks for a total of 200 hours. Interns are assigned…
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Posted July 2, 2025
Job Description The Whitney’s Academic Year Internship program offers a semester-long paid internship for undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled in an accredited academic program. The internship is hybrid, with some onsite work. For Fall 2025, interns commit between 16–21 hours per week over 10–12 weeks for a total of 200 hours. Interns are assigned…
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Posted July 1, 2025
Description Reporting to the Chief Curator and part of the Collections department within the Museum, the Librarian/Archivist will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Library/Archives, including collection care, organization and development, reference, access, outreach, arrangement, and description. The Librarian/Archivist will work across departments, in collaboration with the Museum Director, Collections department, Education and Community Engagement…
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Posted June 24, 2025
Description The MIT Museum seeks a digitization assistant to digitize archival materials from the Martin Klein Collection. The assistant will match documents to existing records, scan or photograph materials as appropriate, process images to internal standards, and apply appropriate naming conventions and other descriptive metadata to promote digital access. The Martin Klein Collection comprises 22…
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Posted April 16, 2025
Job Summary: Looking for hands-on public history experience? Passionate about turn-of-the-20th-century history? Enjoy sharing stories of the Arts and Crafts movement, Boston history, and women’s lives? Join the staff at the Nichols House Museum! About the Nichols House Museum: The Nichols House Museum on Boston’s historic Beacon Hill was home to an early 20th-century family…
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Posted April 7, 2025
Description The intern will work under the supervision of Saco Museum staff to process new and backlogged archival collections. The intern will learn how to survey a collection, create a processing plan, arrange, rehouse, and label materials, and create descriptive metadata for the collection in a finding aid that will be published in the online…
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Posted April 3, 2025
Job Descriptions: Archives The Archives graduate student intern (average of 10 hours/week for both semesters September-December and February-May) will perform primary source research in the museum’s archival collections to develop a timeline for the museum’s exhibitions from 1895 to 1950, compiling accurate dates, alternate titles, contributors, and related material. Additional key activities will include archival…
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Posted March 10, 2025
Description Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) seeks an Associate Registrar, Digital Resources to join the RISD Museum. The Associate Registrar, Digital Resources supports key pillars of the Museum’s strategic plan by engaging communities through access to collections and exhibitions and contributing to the transformation of Museum digital spaces. This position manages and facilitates the…
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Posted March 6, 2025
The Congregational Library & Archives seeks reliable and friendly Exhibition Gallery Attendants to engage, educate, and inform guests at the library’s exhibition, Sacred Rebellion: Congregationalists in Revolutionary Massachusetts. The exhibition will be open from 11 am to 4 pm on Fridays and Saturdays from April 5 – June 21, 2025. Job Responsibilities Job Requirements and Qualifications…
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Posted March 4, 2025
Description Founded in 1886, Lexington Historical Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving, andsharing the history of Lexington, Massachusetts, site of the first shot of the AmericanRevolution. The Society (soon to be known as Lexington History Museums) is a vibrantnon-profit organization that manages three historic house museums, the Old Belfry, anda soon-to-be opened Depot Museum. (For…
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