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Explore Museum Careers with a Paid Internship nmaahc.si.edu/RFSInterns The Museum NMAAHC is the 19 th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life,

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Explore Museum Careers with a Paid Internship

nmaahc.si.edu/RFSInterns

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The Museum

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NMAAHC is the 19th and newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It is open to all, where anyone is welcome to participate, collaborate, and learn more about African American history and culture.

Photo by Alan Karchmer for NMAAHC

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Program Overview

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Provide guided learning experiences consisting of hands-on training, mentoring, attendance at educational events, and cultivation of contacts for the next generation of researchers, scholars, curators, and other museum, library, preservation, and heritage professionals. Students from underrepresented groups encouraged to apply.

Photo by Walter Larrimore/NMAAHC

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Internship Details

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  • Multiple Locations!
  • Washington, DC
  • Durham, NC
  • Daytona Beach, FL
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • Montgomery, AL
  • Apply for as many positions as you’re interested, but don’t forget to focus

https://nmaahc.si.edu/RFSInterns

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Internship Details

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  • Undergraduate (completed at least one year), graduate, or career-changers
  • 12 weeks long, 35-40 hours/week
  • $600/week stipend
  • Need-based $150/week housing and transportation stipend
  • Housing arrangements are the responsibility of the intern
  • Select interest in the application based on need to pay rent
  • Flexible start and end dates (May – September)
  • College credit (not required)
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Available Positions Summer 2018

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National Museum

  • f African American

History & Culture Washington, DC Senator John Heinz History Center Pittsburgh, PA Bethune-Cookman University Daytona Beach, FL Historic Stagville Durham, NC Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African- American Culture Montgomery, AL Digitization Collections Management Oral History Transcription Oral History & Digitization Oral History Integrated Marketing Media Oral History Archives Web Content

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Application Requirements

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Due 11:59 p.m. March 15, 2018

at NMAAHC Offsite

Personal essay Cover letter (no more than 2 pages) Resume Resume Academic transcripts (unofficial accepted) Academic transcripts (unofficial accepted) 2 letters of recommendation 2 letters of recommendation

Apply through SOLAA http://s.si.edu/2mT1IWN Email materials to RFSInternships@si.edu IN ONE EMAIL WITH REFERENCES

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Application Process

1. Submit application by March 15

SOLAA for NMAAHC, Email for Offsite

2. Supervisors review and interview –

Ask about schedule, accessibility, expectations

3. Offer letters from NMAAHC

Early-mid April

4. NMAAHC – background checks / Offsite - supervisor

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Photo by Benjamin G. Sullivan/NMAAHC

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Benefits

  • Stipends
  • Formal mentors
  • Workshops and presentations
  • Professional memberships
  • AAAM

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Helpful Tips

  • Mission
  • Follow the instructions!
  • Clean presentation
  • Error-free
  • Choose references wisely & give time
  • Email questions to RFSInternships@si.edu

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Photo by Amy Muth/NMAAHC

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What do interns have to say?

I am now able to setup a professional photography set, shoot the items needed [museum artifacts] with a NikonD800, and digitally preserve the files and derivatives…the James E. Lewis Museum of Art internship was a great working experience. Sean Winkfield, Summer 2017 Morgan State University, Baltimore

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Photos by Walter Larrimore/NMAAHC

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What do interns have to say?

My favorite part, by far, was learning how to digitize flat objects, something I had no experience in. I also developed my own skills in editing and researching for various online and print publications for the museum…I would do it all over again if I could! Meera White, Summer 2017 NMAAHC, Washington, DC

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Photo by Benjamin G. Sullivan/NMAAHC

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Stay in touch

Summer 2018 not for you? Sign up for updates and application openings

(link is also on nmaahc.si.edu/RFSInterns)

http://bit.ly/2FxiWjN

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Questions?

Anjali Lalani Smith Fund Interns and Fellows Program Administrator RFSInternships@si.edu 202-633-4511

https://nmaahc.si.edu/RFSInterns

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