Summer Internship at the Field Museum (focus on social history items from the Pacific)
Listing Start Date: February 1, 2025
Expires: March 1, 2025
Summer Internship: Intern II – Regenstein Pacific Conservation Internship.
Department: Gantz Family Collections Center
Location: Chicago, IL
The Field Museum is pleased to announce one 2025 Regenstein Pacific Conservation Internship. The internship is intended to provide the intern with experience in the care and treatment of organic collections, primarily mats, tapa, and wood from the Pacific.This is a paid internship for full-time (35 hours per week) for 12 weeks. The salary is $17.50/hr for undergraduates or $18/hr for master’s students and recent graduates. Start and end dates are negotiable, but the internship must take place within the period April 1 to Sept 30.
The intern will work under the supervision of JP Brown (Senior Conservator) on the imaging, treatment, and housing of grass mats and tapa textiles from the Pacific with some work on Ruatepupuke, the carved meeting house which the museum co-manages with the family of origin at Tokomaru Bay in New Zealand.
Qualifications
Qualifications
The internship is open to advanced undergraduates, recent graduates (six months or less), or graduate students currently studying conservation, anthropology, art history, museum studies, or a related field, and who have demonstrated an interest in working in museums. Preference will be given to applicants showing an interest in following a career in the conservation of museum collections.
Previous experience of the following will be a plus, but are not essential:
– the care, treatment, and housing of organic materials,
– digital photography,
– cutting and drilling using hand tools and portable power tools.
Application Instructions
Applications are being accepted online via the Field Museum’s Careers page.
Applications are being accepted online via the Field Museum’s Careers page.
Interested candidates will need to submit the following documents in their online application:
– Resume
– Transcript (unofficial transcripts are acceptable)
– A cover letter explaining what you would bring to the project, and how your previous experience makes you a good candidate for the internship. Please indicate your availability within the April 1 to Sept 30 time frame of the internship.
– Letter of recommendation
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