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Registration Internship | RISD Museum Summer Mellon Internship posted Dec 8, 2025

RISD Museum
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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  • Start Date for Internship 06/01/2026
  • End Date for Internship 08/07/2026
The RISD Museum's Mellon summer internship program introduces students to museum work and offers in-depth experience working in a specific department of the RISD Museum. Interns contribute to departmental projects with Museum staff as supervisors. As a cohort, interns discuss museum practice, build professional skills for working in the arts, and learn about how museums live up to their missions. This is designed as an introductory experience for students without prior experience or access to similar opportunities.
The ten-week internships begin on June 1 and end on August 7. Interns are expected to work for 20 hours a week. Participation in group seminars and workshops focusing on museum studies and professional practice is included in these weekly hours. Interns will develop an independent project related to their interests alongside these seminar sessions and at the end of the program, each intern will publicly reflect on their experi ence and share their work. Browse former interns' perspectives on the collection here. Interns will receive a $4,000 honorarium. A limited amount of funding is available for travel assistance and may be awarded to accepted students who would not otherwise be able to take advantage of this opportunity.
Registration Internship: Collections Management
The Registration Intern will assist the museum registrars with projects related to the care and management of the museum's permanent collection and loans, gaining an introduction to museum registration practices and art handling skills. The fellow will assist with a large collections inventory project including barcode tagging, identification photography, general cataloging, and condition assessments as well as assist with the documentation of incoming acquisitions and loans for the collection and exhibitions. The fellow will learn about conservation-approved materials, close looking and analysis of artworks, collections data management, and assist with other collections tasks as time permits. A successful candidate is detail-oriented, possesses computer fluency, and has excellent organizational skills.
The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, January 30, 2025, at 11:59 pm. Selected candidates will be interviewed in March and all applicants will be notified by the end of that month. Questions should be addressed to museum-academic@risd.edu.

How to apply:

Please apply using this link: https://risdmuseum.submittable.com/submit/341813/risd-museum-mellon-summer-internship-program-2026

Contact:

Human Resources
museum-academic@risd.edu

Registration/Curatorial Internship | RISD Museum Summer Mellon Internship posted Dec 8, 2025

RISD Museum
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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  • Start Date for Internship 06/01/2026
  • End Date for Internship 08/07/2026

The RISD Museum's Mellon summer internship program introduces students to museum work and offers in-depth experience working in a specific department of the RISD Museum. Interns contribute to departmental projects with Museum staff as supervisors. As a cohort, interns discuss museum practice, build professional skills for working in the arts, and learn about how museums live up to their missions. This is designed as an introductory experience for students without prior experience or access to similar opportunities.

The ten-week internships begin on June 1 and end on August 7. Interns are expected to work for 20 hours a week. Participation in group seminars and workshops focusing on museum studies and professional practice is included in these weekly hours. Interns will develop an independent project related to their interests alongside these seminar sessions and at the end of the program, each intern will publicly reflect on their experience and share their work. Browse former interns' perspectives on the collection here. Interns will receive a $4,000 honorarium. A limited amount of funding is available for travel assistance and may be awarded to accepted students who would not otherwise be able to take advantage of this opportunity.

Registration/Curatorial Internship: Collection Information and Costume and Textiles:
The Collection Information and Costume and Textiles Intern will learn how the museum's information is organized and managed in the Collection Management System, which houses information about the museum's collection and programs, through the cataloguing of textiles. The intern will work directly with the Registrar for Collection Information and Documentation and the Curator and Head of Costume and Textiles gaining hands-on experience building database records and working with textiles. A successful candidate is detail oriented, careful, possesses computer fluency (and interest), and has excellent organizational skills.

The deadline for submitting applications is Friday, January 30, 2025, at 11:59 pm. Selected candidates will be interviewed in March and all applicants will be notified by the end of that month. Questions should be addressed to museum-academic@risd.edu.

How to apply:

Please apply using this link: https://risdmuseum.submittable.com/submit/341813/risd-museum-mellon-summer-internship-program-2026

Contact:

Human Resources
museum-academic@risd.edu
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