Fall and spring internships require a minimum commitment of two days per week, one of which must be Tuesday. 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.

The Carole Kismaric Mikolaycak Internship is a full-time, fourteen-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. To apply for this internship, specify Publications on your Spring internship application.

Summer internships require a minimum commitment of three days per week, one of which must be Tuesday. These internships are offered during the summer months (June–August) and are ideal for beginning professionals, graduate students, international students and undergraduate students who are scheduled to start their junior year in Fall 2012. Students need not receive credit if they do not wish to do so.

Full-time, 12-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. 12-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. 12-month interns will also be given the opportunity to develop and regularly deliver public gallery talks about the Museum's collection.

Below are descriptions of and requirements for six 2011–2012 12-Month Internship positions. These positions may not necessarily be available for the 2012–2013 Internship term, as available internships shift on a term-by-term basis.

Prints and Illustrated Books/Fluxus Collection Intern

Description: The Fluxus intern will assist the identification, cataloging, photography, and research of objects in the Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, which is one of the world's largest repositories of material by artists associated with the Fluxus movement active in the United States, Europe, and Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Many artistic mediums are represented in the collection, including prints, books, multiples, sculptures, paintings, films, photographs, drawings, and sound recordings, among others.

Requirements: An ideal candidate will have experience working in both curatorial and collections management/registrar settings. The intern will have completed scholarly research for academic and/or museum projects, and possess knowledge of proper art handling techniques and cataloging procedures (measuring works and identifying materials). Experience using CEMS or a similar collection database is very important. The candidate should also know how to operate a digital camera and manage images in Photoshop. Experience researching artist biographies and object history is a plus. Experience working with Fluxus material is not essential, but a general understanding of interdisciplinary art forms from the postwar period is important.

Digital Learning Intern, Department of Education

Description: The Department of Education is looking for an intern with an interest in education, educational theory, and the future of education in the digital age. The intern should have exceptional organizational skills. His/her primary responsibilities will include creating and producing multimedia, assisting in the creation of educational websites, coordinating educational resources for the web, and helping with technology needs across the education department—creating creative Powerpoint slides, resizing images, and teaching basic image and video editing software (iMovie, Garageband, Screenflow, or other screen-capture software).

Requirements:
1. Facility and comfort with social media (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube)
2. Experience with shooting, editing, and producing video
3. Knowledge of applications such as Photoshop, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Garageband, Audacity, and Screenflow (or other screen-capture applications)
4. Knowledge of MS Office applications (primarily Word, Powerpoint, and Excel)
5. Experience with online learning environments, such as Blackboard or Moodle (from the position of a student is fine)
6. Experience with blogging applications such as Blogger or Wordpress
7. Experience using iTunes, Vimeo, and YouTube for uploading and downloading content
8. Experience teaching, ideally in a museum or community setting

Community and Access Programs Intern, Department of Education

Description: The intern will work across the Department of Education, namely with Community and Access Programs. Major responsibilities include organizing and coordinating various Access Programs, including those for individuals who are blind, partially sighted, deaf, hard of hearing, or have developmental disabilities or Alzheimer’s disease. The intern will coordinate volunteers, sign language interpreters, captioners, and educators related to Education programs, and will help to administer programs across the department. This intern will be responsible for office tasks such as managing art supply inventory and orders, documenting programs and partnerships, taking reservations for programs, and transcribing materials for exhibitions and videos. The intern will also have the opportunity to participate in educator training and teach in the galleries.

Requirements: The ideal candidate must have an interest in accessible art museum programming, enjoy interacting with the public, and have experience working with people with disabilities or community groups. The candidate should have the ability to multitask, be extremely organized, and be able to successfully execute both administrative and program-oriented projects. Fluency in a foreign language, including American Sign Language, is preferable.

Public Programs Intern, Department of Education

Description: The Public Programs intern will provide support to the Adult and Academic Programs area of the Department of Education. Tasks include coordinating monthly gallery talks, maintaining daily correspondence, monitoring Brown Bag Lunch Lectures, assisting in research and set-up for evening programs, and liaising with program participants, MoMA staff, volunteers, and Audio Visual staff. The intern will learn all of the details implicit in making a program run successfully, including marketing and ticketing. The intern will also have the opportunity to put together his or her own program, executing all of the steps of organizing a program from conception to realization.

Requirements: The ideal candidate has the ability to multitask, is extremely organized and is able to successfully execute both administrative and research-oriented projects. The intern works collaboratively and helps to create new ways for audiences to engage with modern and contemporary art. The position requires a candidate who enjoys interacting with the public and with a range of staff and program participants and confronts last-minute, logistical, or personnel challenges with ease. The intern must be available to work at public programs in the evenings.

Painting and Sculpture Intern

Description: The Painting and Sculpture intern will work across this curatorial department, conducting research on a wide range of topics, from works in the Museum’s collection to upcoming exhibition subjects. The intern will assist in the planning of gallery changes and will maintain general office correspondence. The intern will also participate in facilitating the acquisitions process.

Requirements: The intern should have a demonstrated interest in curatorial practice. Attention to detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to multitask and prioritize are essential to the position. Strong research skills are a plus.

The Louise Bourgeois Internship in Prints and Illustrated Books

Description: A yearlong internship in the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books will introduce the candidate to a range of the essential activities of a curatorial department, which may range from research and collections management, to assisting with acquisitions, loans, and exhibition and catalogue production. The collection of prints and illustrated books, numbering some 55,000 objects, is housed within the department offices, so the intern will work directly with art objects, after requisite conservation training. In addition, the department’s Study Center, which services approximately 1,000 visitors per year (including classes), is integral to its curatorial mission and the intern may assist with activities there. In general, the intern will be involved with various aspects of the department programs, under the guidance of the curatorial and administrative staff, with hopes of fostering his or her future involvement in the field of prints and illustrated books. This internship is named in honor of artist Louise Bourgeois, whose extensive work in printmaking comprises an archive within the Museum’s collection.

Requirements: A candidate should have completed a BA degree, with an art history background preferred. Any previous experience working in a museum, generally, or with works on paper, specifically, would be helpful, but is not essential.