Collections Internship at the Slate Valley Museum
Situated
on the banks of the Mettowee River in Granville, NY, the Slate Valley
Museum is a thriving, small, community oriented museum. SVM seeks
collections-focused interns for this summer. Interns will support
SVM’s mission to collect, catalog, preserve/conserve, exhibit, and
interpret materials, artifacts, and information that demonstrate the
geology of slate and the history of slate quarrying and the quarrying
communities in the Slate Valley of New York and Vermont from 1839 to the
present.
T
he
collection contains three-dimensional artifacts like slate working
tools, heavy machinery, clothing, as well as archives relating to
slate companies and families of immigrant slate workers. Working
alongside the Assistant Director/Collections Manager to complete a
collections digitization and access project, interns’ duties include
cataloging and researching collections items as well as working with
digital files in the new online catalog. Knowledge and experience with
PastPerfect museum software is helpful but not
mandatory. Interns will also assist in the installation and
interpretation of exhibits—especially a new interactive exhibit about
immigrants to the Slate Valley from Eastern Europe.
The internship is unpaid and the museum does not provide housing.
Requirements:
Applicants must be enrolled in college or graduate school or a recent
graduate, studying history, museum studies, American studies, or related
field.
Please email questions to [log in to unmask] or call (518) 642-1417. Applications are due by April 30, 2013. The announcement can be viewed online at www.slatevalleymuseum.org/internships
To apply: email a cover letter, resume, and contact information for three professional references to:
Amy Mincher
Assistant Director/Collections Manager
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