The Museum of Modern Art offers several types of internships: Fall and Spring Internships, Spring Internship in Publishing, Summer Internships, and Twelve-Month Internships, and the two-year Dedalus Fellowship. The Twelve-Month and Summer Internship programs include a museum studies and professional development program organized by the Education Department. Descriptions of each of these internships follow below. We do not offer internships other than those described below. We can only accommodate interns who are able to work during our designated program terms, as indicated below.

Fall and Spring Internships

Fall and spring internships require a minimum commitment of two days per week (one of which must be Tuesday) and are unpaid. These internships are offered during the school year, coinciding with the fall and spring semesters. Fall and spring internships are ideal for registered students who require internship or practicum credits, but students need not receive credit if they do not wish to do so.

Fall Internships

Length Twelve weeks
Dates of 2009 term September 14–December 4, 2009
Application Deadline May 26, 2009
All applicants will be notified of final placements by August 14, 2009.
Required Commitment Two days a week minimum (full-time optional). In order to attend all internship lectures and programs, one workday must be Tuesday.
Eligibility College students (third and fourth year), graduate students, international students, and beginning professionals may apply. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend No stipends are available

Spring Internships

Length Twelve weeks
Dates of 2010 term February 8–April 30, 2010
Application Deadline October 23, 2009
All applicants will be notified of final placements by January 8, 2010.
Required Commitment Two days a week minimum (full-time optional). In order to attend all internship lectures and programs, one workday must be Tuesday
Eligibility College students (third and fourth year), graduate students, international students, and beginning professionals may apply. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend No stipends are available, with the exception of one paid Spring Internship position in Publishing, the Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship (see below).

Spring Internship in Publishing: Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship

The Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship is a full-time, twelve-week, paid internship. Working with curators and editors on a forthcoming Museum publication, the intern's tasks may range from research, writing, editing, and design, to printing and publication.

Length Twelve weeks
Dates of 2010 term February 8–April 30, 2010
Application Deadline October 23, 2009
All applicants will be notified of final placements by January 8, 2010.
Required commitment Full time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Recent graduates, graduate students, international students, and beginning professionals may apply.

Summer Internships: The Helena Rubinstein Summer Internship Program

The Helena Rubinstein Summer Internship Program is a full-time, ten-week, paid internship. During the summer, weekly lectures with the Museum's professional staff are supplemented by field trips to other museums, galleries, foundations, corporate collections, private collections, alternative spaces, nonprofit organizations, and artists' studios. These visits provide interns with opportunities to examine the roles, functions, and activities of a wide range of art professionals and institutions. There are no unpaid internships during the summer.

Length Ten weeks
Dates of 2010 term June 7–August 13, 2010
Application Deadline January 15, 2010
All applicants will be notified of final placements by April 16, 2010.
Required Commitment Full time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Students must be undergraduates with at least incoming junior standing (or have recently graduated) or be currently registered graduate students (or have recently completed coursework). International students or recent graduates may apply. Please note that junior standing is roughly equivalent to having completed at least one-half of an undergraduate degree. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend Award based on available funding

Twelve-Month Internships

Full-time, twelve-month internships with stipends are offered for recent college graduates interested in pursuing a museum career. The focused departmental training is integrated with the fall, spring, and summer lecture series and complemented with financial provisions for the interns to attend an international art event related to their field of interest. Twelve-month internships provide training in specific museum fields through close work with a professional staff member, familiarity with modern and contemporary art through seminars and discussions, and an educational program that exposes interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole and considers the role of museums in the broader cultural context. Twelve-month interns will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver public gallery talks about the Museum's collection.

Length Twelve months beginning in mid-September
Dates of 2009–10 term September 14, 2009–September 10, 2010
Application Deadline May 26, 2009
All applicants will be notified of final placements by August 14, 2009.
Required Commitment Full-time (Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.)
Eligibility Recent graduates of bachelor's or master's degree programs. The Museum encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines to apply.
Stipend Awarded based on available funding ($22,000) plus standard health benefits, two weeks paid vacation, and additional $1,000 to cover travel expenses and registration fees for one approved professional conference

For the 2009–10 period, twelve-month internships will only be available in the curatorial and Education departments.

Following is one specific internship available for this period:

Digital Learning Intern, Education Department
The Education Department is looking for an intern with facility in creating and producing multimedia and in social networking. Responsibilities include adding to and organizing a content-management system, helping to coordinate blogging for the deptartment, creating and editing video content, assisting with online courses, and optimizing images and video for Web publication.

The intern will need to have the following:

1. Facility and comfort with social networking sites (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube)
2. Facility and comfort with multimedia creation and editing: knowledge of or ability to learn applications such as iMovie and Screenflow
3. Knowledge of MS Office applications (primarily Word, Powerpoint, and Excel)
4. Experience with online learning environments (from the position of a student is fine)
5. Experience with Blogger or Wordpress (or other blogging applications)
6. Experience using iTunes and YouTube for uploading and downloading content
7. Experience capturing and optimizing video and still images
8. Knowledge of Photoshop (or at least Photoshop Elements)

The Museum of Modern Art Archives—Dedalus Fellow

The Museum Archives of The Museum of Modern Art announces the availability of a two-year fellowship, generously funded by the Dedalus Foundation. The fellowship provides training and valuable experience in art history and art archives, research and museum administration, and an advanced understanding of the artist Robert Motherwell.

The Dedalus Fellow's duties fall into three broad categories:

1. The Fellow is responsible for a project to conserve and reformat rare and fragile sound recordings of conversations with or lectures by Robert Motherwell. This includes working with an outside audio preservation laboratory. In addition, the Fellow will be responsible for processing MoMA archival audio, as well as working with select unprocessed collections of archival documents to prepare inventories and perform routine preservation work.

2. The Fellow assists the Museum Archives staff with general reference and research functions, basic preservation tasks, and the daily activities of this extremely active department. The Museum Archives includes over 4,500 linear feet of important primary source material and responds to over 3,000 research requests annually.

3. The Fellow will be a member of the Museum's Twelve-Month Internship Program and will participate in Internship meetings and events. Twelve-month interns are college graduates who are interested in pursuing a museum career and whose academic and/or professional experience combines art history with one or more of the following areas: arts administration, museum studies, arts management, education, development, studio art, or related studies. The focused departmental training is integrated with an educational program that orients interns to the workings of the Museum as a whole, and helps them to think about the role of museums in a broader cultural context through an active lecture series and site visits.

The stipend for the position is $24,000 in the first year, $26,000 in the second. In addition, the intern will receive $1,000 annually for travel to an approved professional conference. Benefits include health insurance and three weeks paid vacation per year. The Dedalus Fellowship is a full-time position, Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Interested applicants should complete a standard Internship Program application form (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Please indicate on your application form that you are applying for the position of Dedalus Fellow (and disregard the Term Dates and Departmental Choices sections of the application).

Please note: Because of J-1 visa restrictions, only US citizens may apply for this position.

The position will begin September 13, 2010. Please submit your completed application by June 25, 2010 to:

Internship Coordinator
Department of Education
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019

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