Missouri History Museum

The Missouri History Museum has an active internship program available in the Fall, the Spring, and the Summer semesters. For the most part, the selected interns are college juniors or above, although occasionally exceptional underclass students are accepted. MHM has a variety of departments that offer internships.  Departments that can accommodate internships are:  Archives, Exhibits, Community Education and Events, Human Resources, Library, Media Collections, Museum Collections, Research, Special Projects, Publications and Visitor Services. We likewise are offering an intern position in collaboration with the Association of Midwest Museums. Our staff is deeply experienced in supervising interns in the professional standards of their fields.

We offer three categories of internships:

• Academic internships. The intern is supervised by a MHM staff professional but must take a corresponding course in his or her college, university, or graduate school for credit. A faculty member monitors the student's work and assigns a grade. This is the most common form of internship.
• Paid internships. A limited number of paid internships are offered each semester. The intern works on a funded project with an MHM staff professional; no academic credit is given.
• Non-academic internships. The intern does the work and meets the expectations of an academic internship but does not take a corresponding academic class. The non-academic internship is run through the Internship Office, and any position available as an academic internships can be taken as a non-academic internship as an alternative.

Academic and non-academic internships require a minimum of 150 hours of onsite commitment over the course of a semester.  The required hours for paid internships will be set by the intership supervisor.  All positions are open until filled.

Internship Application

Fall 2010 Internship Positions:

AMM
Youth and Family Programs
Scout Programs
K-12 Educational Interpreter
Youth and Education Outreach
Film
Genealogy
Young Professionals Cultivation
Exhibitions & Research
Film Programs
Film Preservation
Sound Collections Digitization