A Peaceful and Prosperous New Year to Everyone!
Cecelia-
Here are my answers to your questions and of course they are imho.
>1) where do you find interns? Generally (but not always) interns are
>college students or recent graduates. Try contacting the job placement and
>pertinent academic departments of area colleges and universities. Both
>Baylor University and Texas Tech University have Museum Science programs.
>Try talking to them. Also, internship postings appear on Roger's global
>museum website, AAM's Aviso, www.museum-employment.com to name a few. Go to
>their sites and include your posting.
>2) what do you pay them? This depends on the resources you have to devote
>to the internship. Some interns are volunteers, while others get wages or a
>stipend ( I have received a $1000 stipend for a summer internship), and
>still others receive room and board ( I had a room provided to me at
>another internship).
>3) what are the terms of the internship? This kind of depends on the
>internship. I went to Texas Tech's museum science program. Summer
>internships were basically at the student's and museum's discretion. The
>program had no rules for them. However, if you chose to do a six-month
>internship (or longer) instead of a thesis, then the program had strict
>guidelines to ensure that the internship would be an educational
>experience, not just grunt work. This included a payment of some kind to
>the intern, progress reports and end of internship evaluations. Texas Tech
>requires that the six-month internhip have a main project or goal that is
>to be completed.
>4) what skills are interns looking to develop? This varies by the intern.
>The skills they want will depend on where they want to go. If they want to
>be a curator, then they will be looking for internships that give them
>experience doing things that curators do, such as exhibit writing,
>collections care, and research. (of course, skills aren't mutually
>exclusive)
>5) have you ever had remote interns developing materials? We tried that
>last spring with an area university, but had varying results because the
>students didn't stay committed to their projects. In general, this could
>work, but will depend on the requirements of the student, their program,
>and your museum.
Hope this Helps.
Cheers,
Chris Godbold
Assistant Curator
Heritage Farmstead Museum
Plano, TX
www.heritagefarmstead.org
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