![Summer Internship at The Sargent House Museum [The Sargent House Museum, Gloucester, MA ]](https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/wp-content/themes/kale/sample/images/thumb3.jpg)
Description: The Sargent House Museum in Gloucester is seeking interns for its 2016 Summer Intern Program. Gloucester and Cape Ann high school students and college students and are given first consideration, though others are also encouraged to apply. The internship begins immediately and runs through …
![Fall 2016 Development and Membership Intern [Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN]](https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/wp-content/themes/kale/sample/images/thumb2.jpg)
Project Summary: The intern will work with, and as part of, the development and membership staff to help improve the customer experience of the Society’s members and donors by aiding in the maintenance and accuracy of the Society’s development database. In this role, the intern …
![Fall 2016 World War I Daybook Research Assistant [Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN]](https://sites.tufts.edu/museumstudents/wp-content/themes/kale/sample/images/full2.jpg)
| Project Summary: The Collections Department documents the history and culture of the state by building, preserving and making available the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. The intern will work independently and with staff in the Collections Department toward developing a series of blog posts documenting Minnesota’s involvement in World War I (approximately April 6, 1917-November 11, 1918). At the culmination of the internship, the intern will have researched extensively across collecting types to build a comprehensive list of WWI resources available in the MNHS collection, assemble those materials into the blog database, and begin selecting and scanning materials to upload to the daily blog. This blog will be based on the model provided by the “Civil War Daybook” (http://discussions.mnhs.org/collections/category/civilwardaybook/)
Student Responsibilities:
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| Ideal degrees: History, museum studies, anthropology, library science or related fields.
Student Qualifications: Senior level undergraduate student or graduate level student with a passion for research. Must possess the following:
Additional Materials Required: Short writing sample (maximum 500 words) demonstrating student’s ability to concisely convey information distilled from research. |
Additional Salary Information: Unpaid Internship
Project summary: The intern will provide Help Desk Project assistance to technical services (TS) staff on all open help desk calls and other projects. The incumbent will work with TS staff to document both new and completed tasks. Other duties include working with the network …
Project Summary: The Multimedia Intern will assist MNHS multimedia staff in the development, production and implementation of a variety of multimedia projects for exhibits, education, promotion and the support of departments across the organization. The media staff at MNHS produce everything from online videos to …
Today’s “What We’re Reading” post comes to you from Colleen Sutherland, recent Tufts Museum Studies graduate and previous co-editor of the Tufts Museum Studies Blog.
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/22/abbe-museums- new-exhibition- tells-many- difficult-stories/
Although this article is a news article, and not a strictly academic article, I still think it’s important to read. While we often talk about the importance of discussing difficult topics or involving community members in exhibitions or collections committees, sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to reach out (or who to reach out to). I think this article does a thorough job of examining how the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, not only involves the voices of the Native communities around Maine, but also touches on the importance of providing frontline staff with the tools to answer sometimes intrusive questions.
Do you have any thoughts or ideas on this subject? Have you had experience telling difficult stories in your museum? What worked and what didn’t? Let us know in the comments below.