Regenstein Pacific Collections Internship – Collections Management

Department: Gantz Family Collections Center
Location: Chicago, IL

The Field Museum is pleased to announce one 2024 Regenstein Pacific Collections Internship in Collections Management. This internship aims at providing the intern with an experience that should be educational, and while their work product will benefit the Museum; their work should be designed to benefit them more so than the Museum. This is a paid internship for full-time (35 hours per week) for 12 weeks. Start and end dates are negotiable, but the internships must take place within the period of May 6 to Sept 30. Salary of $16.50-$17 per hour depending on experience.

The intern will work under the supervision of Christopher J. Philipp (Regenstein Collections Manager) and Julia Kennedy (Collections Assistant) and focus on the inventory, digitization, and storage mount construction of items from the Pacific Island collection. This intern may assist in selected visits to the Anthropology storage rooms in the form of tours and research visits and may present their work at a public event.

Qualifications

The internships will be awarded to advanced undergraduates, recent graduates (six months or less), or graduate students currently studying anthropology, art history, museum studies, or a related field who have demonstrated interest in working in museums. Previous experience with museum collections and digital photography would be a plus, but is not essential.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should submit the following documents in their online application:

Applicants must apply through the Field Museum website at www.fieldmuseum.org/careers. Applications through other websites will not be considered.

Applications must be received by Sunday, March 31, 2024.

Important Note: In order to protect the health and safety of our employees, guests and their families, the Field Museum is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Requests for exemptions from the vaccine will not be considered as given the nature of this position, we are unable to provide an accommodation for anyone who has not been vaccinated.

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