Henry Ford Museum Internship and Fellowship (Michigan)

The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan (near Detroit) offer a graduate internship and fellowship program. Greenfield Village is an 80-acre living history museum featuring a variety of buildings significant to American history, working farms, historic crafts, a historic "downtown", a working historic locomotive, and more. The Henry Ford Museum spotlights objects showcasing American inventions and innovations. Also on-site is the Ford Rouge Factory, featuring the Manufacturing Innovation Theater.


Simmons Graduate Internship Program

• For current grad students pursuing careers in museums, historical agencies, conservation, or a related area
• Experience working in an American history museum
• Minimum 12-week internship
• Negotiable start and end dates
• For more information, including contact information, click here

Clark Travel-to-Collections Research Fellowship

• For those interested in using the Henry Ford automotive collection for research
• Researchers from all disciplines, career fields welcome
• A wide variety of candidates is welcome: curators, doctoral candidates, students, teachers, archivists, etc.
• Two-week to two-month period, full-time research
• Can cover any area of automotive history
• Research should be for a particular project
• up to $2,400 will be provided to defray expenses
• At least one fellowship awarded a year
• Applications typically accepted between March to the end of December for a fellowship the following year (always check the website for current dates)
• More information here

Learn more about volunteer opportunities and current employment opportunities.

All information taken from the Henry Ford Museum webpage.


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North Carolina Museum Internships and Volunteer Opportunities

Here is a list of North Carolina museums and historic sites that offer internships and volunteer opportunities. This list is by no means exhaustive, just a launching point for your internship search. These particular sites are mostly in Charlotte and Winston-Salem.
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Charlotte Nature Museum offers volunteer internships to juniors and seniors and grad students for college credit - more information here (Charlotte)

Levine Museum of the New South welcomes volunteers, including tour guides - more information here (Charlotte)

Discovery Place is a science and technology museum connected with Charlotte Nature Museum that also offers internships to juniors and seniors and grad students - more info here (Charlotte)

Carolinas Aviation Museum offers an education internship for students who have completed at least two years of undergraduate work (grad students are preferred) and are studying history, education, or museum studies and possess experience working in camp, childcare, or education - more info here (Charlotte)

The Billy Graham Library welcomes year-round and seasonal volunteers - more info here (Charlotte)

The Mint Museum is an art and craft museum that offers an extensive internship program with applications due in March, June, and November for the summer, fall, and spring, respectively...see the full post about it - more info here and here (Charlotte)

Old Salem Living History town/museum welcomes volunteers, including college interns - more info here (Winston-Salem)

The Children's Museum of Winston-Salem welcomes volunteers who enjoy working with children - more info here (Winston-Salem)

SciWorks Science Center and Environmental Park offer internships, posted here when available (Winston-Salem)

The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art welcomes volunteers, with opportunities in exhibits, education, office, visitor services, and gardening - more info here (Winston-Salem)

Burwell School Historic Site welcomes volunteers - more info here (Hillsborough)

Korner's Folly historic house museum welcomes volunteers, offering opportunities giving tours, puppeteering, greeting visitors, assisting with events - more info here

Historic Ship Sailing Program and Volunteer Opportunities at the Erie Maritime Museum (PA)

U.S. Brig Niagara Sail Training Program at the Erie Maritime Museum (PA): the tall ship sails Lake Erie and even ventures into Great Lakes on its award-winning sail training programs. Most last two weeks and are for either high school (age 14-18) or college students and give participants the experience of living and working on a historic American tall ship. The college program is typically the second two weeks of May though there is an environment-focused college program in August as well. The experience is physically strenuous but (apparently) also very rewarding and gives a unique insight into the past! A background check and medical records and insurance verification are all required for application/enrollment, just fyi. More info here.

Volunteer opportunities are also offered at the Erie Maritime Museum, with work as a docent, historic interpreter, ship model builder, and ship maintenance crew member available. More info here.

Old Sturbridge Village Living History Museum Internships (MA)

Old Sturbridge Village is a vibrant living history museum in Massachusetts, interpreting 1830's American history, with an emphasis on the Industrial Revolution and agricultural history. They have a collection of historic buildings, heritage livestock, and fantastic historic interpreters to bring this era to life for visitors. They also have an extensive internship program for those interested in museum work and offer stipends for many internships.

Internship Information:

• Open to undergrads and grad students who have completed at least 1 year of college
• Stipends of $1,500 are available for many internships
• Housing available at a fee 
• 3 scholarship opportunities are available
• Spring, fall, and summer semester internships available
• Summer internship is 12 weeks (start of June to third week of August)
• Internships available:
• Technology/Education
• Garden
• Curatorial
• Interpretation
• Museum Education
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Development (unpaid)
• Graphic Design (unpaid)
• Marketing (unpaid)
• Special Events (unpaid)
• To apply, fill out and submit an application form and materials
• Application due dates:
• Summer: early March
• Fall: mid-July
• Spring: mid-November
• Read more info on the website

An interpretation internship program is available for 14 to 17 year-olds. Applications are due in December. Learn more here.

Volunteers are welcomed, if over 18, and work in gardens, visitor services, office work, etc. Learn more here.

New Jersey Small Museums Internships - Part II

The first set of New Jersey small museums internships can be found here.

• The Howell Living History Farm, an 130-acre farm interpreted as a working farm in the early 1900s, offers an internship program in self-sufficient farming. Interns work for 12 weeks in the summer, spring, or fall and gain experience working with livestock, crop processing, gardening, and even wood and metalworking, as well as other tasks depending on the season. The opportunity is open to students and non-students. Sounds pretty cool! More info here. (Lambertville, NJ)
• The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts welcomes volunteer student interns. Those interested can send in a resume. Volunteers are welcome to work in programming, education, and visitor services. Sounds like a cool museum! More info here. (Madison, NJ)
• The Passaic County Historical Society has a house museum (Lambert Castle), museum, and library. They welcome high school and college age volunteer interns to work in collections, visitor services, events, research, library work, archival work, etc. More info here. (Paterson, NJ) 
• The Thomas Edison Museum at Menlo Park offers internship opportunities in Archives (college degree required) and Education (undergrad or grad), requesting two to three days work a week. More info here. (Edison, NJ)
• The Metlar Bodine House is a house museum and the historical museum of the Piscataway, NJ township.They welcome volunteers to work in Education, Preservation, Collections, PR, Tourism/Programming, Finance and Development, and Planning. More info here.
• The Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center welcome volunteers, especially those interested in visitor services and leading tours. More info here. (Little Falls, NJ - Montclair State Univ. campus)
• The Grounds for Sculpture sculpture garden welcomes volunteers, who can work as docents or help in the Education, Performing Arts, Guest Services,Gardens, etc., and college and grad student interns interested in museum work. Internship info here. Volunteer info here. (Hamilton, NJ)
• The Hoboken Historical Museum offers volunteer work, in particular to help with their events and festivals. More info here. (Hoboken, NJ)
• The Twin Lights Museum is housed in a former lighthouse and is dedicated to interpreting lighthouse history and has volunteer work available in programming, education, and visitor services, as well as children's programming. More info here. (Highlands, NJ)
• The Whippany Railway Museum welcomes volunteers over 21 years old willing to do physical labor. More info here. (Whippany, NJ)

Other New Jersey Historic Sites:

• Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities & Emlen Physick Estate (Victorian home) - Cape May, NJ
• Walt Whitman Birthplace - Camden, NJ

Another list of New Jersey-area museum internships can be found here on the Seton Hall University's Museum Professions Internships page.

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Historic Deerfield, Mass. Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program

Historic Deerfield, an outdoor history museum in Massachusetts, has an incredible fellowship opportunity for junior and senior undergraduate students interested in American material culture. Fellows live on the village museum property, give guided tours for visitors, conduct independent research in the collections, embark on behind-the-scenes field trips of other historic sites, and learn about material culture using objects from the museum's extensive collections...sign me up!

More program details:

• 9 weeks in the summer
• Housing and meals provided on site
• No tuition or program fees!
• 7-10 students selected each year
• Online application
• Fellows compose two academic research papers 
• Car not necessary
• American material culture focus

Application requirements:

• Junior or senior undergrad standing
• Online application
• Official transcript
• 2-3 page statement of purpose
• 2 letters of recommendation
• $15 application fee

Application due in the first week of February although the specific day varies from year to year.

Amazing opportunity for undergraduates! Read more here: http://www.historic-deerfield.org/discover-deerfield/summer-fellowship-program/