ADAMS MUSEUM & HOUSE, INC.

P.O. Box 252

Deadwood, SD 57732

SPRING 2009 INTERNSHIPS

At the advanced undergraduate and graduate level

 

The AM&H seeks students at the junior, senior or graduate level to apply for various internships for the spring of 2009. Qualified sophomores with adequate coursework, experience and recommendations may be considered as well. All spring internships run from February 2 – April 30, 2009; work hours are flexible. Applications must be received by December 1, 2008. Candidates will be contacted for interviews on or before December 5, 2008. Interviews will be held the week of December 8, 2008.  All internships are unpaid, but in most cases full course credit is available. Please contact Anne Rogers, museum educator for more information at 605-578-1928 or [log in to unmask]. Applications are available at www.AdamsMuseumAndHouse.org under the heading “News.”  

 

 

1.  Education

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The AM&H seeks one advanced undergraduate or graduate level student with experience and related coursework in the field of education to design family and children’s tours of the Adams Museum and/or Historic Adams House. Tours of the Adams Museum are self-guided; tours of the Historic Adams House are led by a docent or educator. Knowledge of Black Hills history a plus. Student must be self-motivated and able to work independently.

 

RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY: education, history, American Studies, English, tourism.

 

SUPERVISED BY: Anne Rogers, museum educator

 

 

2.  Historic Gardens

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The AM&H seeks one to two students to complete various projects at the Historic Adams House Victorian gardens. These projects could include planting, transplanting and general care of the gardens, creating a garden tour for the public, creating a garden brochure and creation of plant description cards. Computer skills and knowledge of gardening preferred.

 

RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY:  Botany, outdoor education, biology, English, history, horticulture, environmental studies, tourism.

 

SUPERVISED BY: Elizabeth Campbell, master gardener

 

 

3.  Collections

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:   The AM&H seeks one to two students to process significant portions of the collections at the Historic Adams House. Projects will include cataloguing, object photography, storage and possibly preparation for and/or exhibit.

 

RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY: history, museum studies, library science.

 

SUPERVISED BY: Brantley Partin, curator

 

 

4.  Photo archives

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:  The Adams Museum seeks one student to assist in the digitization of its historic photograph collection. The collection consists of 15,000 photographs, with 5,000 remaining to be digitized. The photographs chronicle the history of the Black Hills and document the growth of Deadwood and the surrounding area in particular. Strong computer skills a must.

 

RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY:  history, photography, anthropology, computer science.

 

SUPERVISED BY:  Arlette Hansen, Adams Museum curator-archivist

 

 

5.  Research

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:  The Adams Museum seeks one student to research and prepare an in-house reference guide to historic Deadwood and the surrounding region. Student will research event documents, photographs, newspaper reports and oral histories to compile this reference. When complete, the reference will be used at the Adams Museum and Historic Adams House for documenting photographs, dating cultural materials and preparing publications and exhibits.

 

RELATED FIELDS OF STUDY:  history, museum studies, library science.

 

SUPERVISED BY: Darrel Nelson, exhibits curator or Arlette Hansen, curator-archivist

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The Adams Museum & House, Inc. (AM&H) is a private, non-profit history and educational complex that operates two museums: The Adams Museum and Historic Adams House. Currently, the AM&H is in the process of opening the Homestake Adams Research and Cultural Center to house the massive Homestake Mining Co. Collection, the Henry J. Frawley Legal Collection and the Adams Museum and Historic Adams House archival collections. These three organizations form a historic campus in the National Historic Landmark community of Deadwood, SD.

The mission of the non-profit AM&H is to identify, preserve, collect, interpret and promote the history and culture of Deadwood and the surrounding Black Hills for the benefit of members of the Northern Black Hills community, visitors to the area and researchers. We achieve this goal through extensive public programming ranging from school tours and musical performances to workshops in the Victorian arts and haunted hayrides. With a core professional staff of nine individuals with varied talents and backgrounds, our museums are bustling year-round with locals and tourists from around the world. The Adams Museum and Historic Adams House boast a combined annual visitation of nearly 100,000 people, which pushes us to constantly update and rotate exhibits and make our museums accessible to the greatest number of people. Additionally, the AM&H regularly partners with other museums in the Black Hills and provides historical research to entities around the world. It truly is a premier history institution.

Anne Rogers
museum educator, publications coordinator
Adams Museum & House, Inc.
P.O. Box 252
Deadwood, SD  57732
605.578.1928 phone
605.578.1194 fax
www.AdamsMuseumAndHouse.org
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