The Penobscot Marine Museum seeks a high school or early college student interested in a part-time internship for summer 2019. This internship provides hands-on work experience in the daily operations of a medium-sized museum. The intern will actively participate in multiple departments including visitor’s services, education, curatorial, marketing, and photo archives. This is an excellent opportunity for a student with a great sense of curiosity who would like to learn more about what goes on behind-the-scenes and the unique jobs available in the museum field. This internship will include professional development field trips to four other Maine museums.
Internship Duties:
- Assist with public programming
- Attend daily front line staff meetings on scheduled work days
- Assist with 4 one-day children’s camps
- Contribute to PMM’s Facebook and Instagram accounts
- Assist with special events
- Complete a short-term curatorial project such as cataloguing, numbering, and rehousing new acquisitions or identifying objects and writing interpretive labels for the 2020 exhibit
- Complete a short-term photo archives project such as scanning and cataloguing a selection of the Kosti Ruohomaa Collection
Internship Length and Dates:
- 240 hours
- Up to 40 hours a week
- Flexible start and end date, completed sometime between May and September, 2019
- July 4th is a work day
- Work some nights and weekends
Qualifications:
- Desire to learn & good sense of humor
- Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a high school or undergraduate program
- Interest in museums and/or maritime history
- Experience or interest in working with children
- Experience or interest in working with the public
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office and social media a plus
- Must be willing to work some weekends
- Must be at least 16
Compensation
Review of applicants will begin February 15 th , 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Please submit a paragraph expressing your interest in the position, resume, writing sample, transcripts (official or unofficial), and one letter of recommendation to Jeana Ganskop at jganskop@pmm-maine.org.