I have seen a number of threads relating to internships on this list in
the past four or five months, most of which seemed to be ex interns
complaining of the  way they were treated in American museums.

Internships are a fairly new development in smaller Australian museums
such as our own, only recently have the academic bodies given us the
necessary accreditation.

A potential intern doing a masters approached me today to ask what she
might do...my immediate reaction was to load all of those things on to
her that the permanent staff  did not have the time or the inclination
to do....but then I thought - no, that is what the interns on Museum-L
complain about.

So, would kind list members please advise me of "best of all possible
worlds" solutions to my intern's query - what could she do that would
both benefit her studies of museology, and also benefit this
contemporary art museum?

Alan Sisley
Orange Regional Gallery
New South Wales
Australia