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Music Collections Archivist, The Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C

Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is looking for bids from contractors for professional, non-personal, work-for-hire archives processing services. The purpose of this contract is to assist the Office of Curatorial Affairs (OCA) with archival processing, arrangement, preservation, and description in support of creating physical and digital access to its…


Curator of Special Collections, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE

Job Description The Winterthur Library seeks a creative, thoughtful, and collaborative curator to help develop, steward, and engage its special collections. The Winterthur Library is a renowned independent academic research library dedicated to documenting, understanding, and engaging the artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history of the Americas in a global context from the 17th to…


Special Collections Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE

Job Description Under the direction of the Library Director, the Special Collections Cataloging and Metadata Librarian manages cataloging and metadata activities to enhance discovery of and access to the Winterthur Library’s rich multimedia collections. The Special Collections Cataloging and Metadata Librarian creates records for scholarly and special collection items in a wide range of formats…


Museum Guide, Dorothy Quincy Homestead, (Quincy, MA)

Description The Colonial Dames of Massachusetts are seeking museum guides for the Dorothy Quincy Homestead in Quincy MA. The Homestead is a beautiful property that was home to four generations of the Edmund Quincy family from 1681-1760 as well as the Black people they enslaved and Native Americans. It was the childhood home of Dorothy Quincy,…


Technical Services Intern, Philips Library, Salem, MA

About the Internship: The Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library Technical Services Department is seeking an intern from June 8 – August 25, 2023. Under the direction of the Technical Services Librarian and Assistant Cataloging Librarian the intern will participate in collection development activities including weeding, library stacks space management, and metadata creation. The intern will…


Historical Clothing & Textiles – Production Internship, Plimoth Patuxet Museum, Plymouth, MA

Description Reproducing historically accurate clothing in a museum setting encompasses a multitude of skills and processes, including research and development, use of period and modern construction techniques, as well as sharing this knowledge and skill with our guests who visit Plimoth Patuxet Museums. The Historical Clothing & Textiles Production intern will experience the unique day-to-day…


Horticulture Internship, Plimoth Patuxet Museum, Plymouth, MA

Description Horticulture Interns will work alongside the Museum’s Horticulture and Historic Patuxet Homesite staff to gain an inside knowledge of how traditional Wampanoag gardens and landscapes are planned, maintained and interpreted for diverse public Indigenous and non-Native audiences. Horticulture interns will hone their horticultural skills in existing gardens and landscapes in the Historic Patuxet Homesite…


Museum Education Internship, Plimoth Patuxet Museum, Plymouth, MA

Description Plimoth Patuxet Museums is looking for dynamic, team-oriented educators passionate about engaging learners of all ages to assist with planning, developing and implementing Plimoth Patuxet’s educational programs for youth and family audiences, particularly PPM’s Summer Adventure Camp and Museum Theater Academy. These programs involve indoor and outdoor programming at the Museum’s main campus, including…


Collections Care Internship, Plimoth Patuxet Museums, Plymouth, MA

Descriptions The Collections Care internship offers advanced undergraduate or graduate museum studies students experience in preventative preservation practices and collections management. The Collections Care Intern’s daily responsibilities include inventorying objects, organizing accession files, photographing objects, and constructing custom storage containers for rehousing objects. Additionally, the Collections Care intern will help reorganize collections storage spaces to…


Digital Collections Metadata Intern, Philips Library (Peabody Essex Museum), Rowley, MA

Join the Phillips Library, PEM’s research library, as a digital projects intern for Summer 2023! Our digitization program exponentially increases free, worldwide access to our collections and demonstrates that the library is a vital and engaged part of the museum and its communities. This project will include research into provenance and copyright status of our…