The Great Lakes Naval Museum internship program allows for interns with numerous interests, strengths, and goals to gain practical, hands-on museum experience at the United States Navy's newest museum. As an official Department of the Navy Museum, the Great Lakes Naval Museum's mission is to select, collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the United States Navy with particular emphasis on the Navy's only "boot camp" at the Naval Training Station/Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, located approcimately thirty-five miles north of Chicago. For more information about the museum's curtatorial and education internships, please visit http://www.history.navy.mil/museums/greatlakes/intern.htm.
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Jennifer Searcy