Graduate Education and Collections Management Internship
Liberty Hall Museum is seeking in-person interns for the Spring 2021 semester!
Liberty Hall Museum is a historic house and garden museum conveniently located at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. As New Jersey’s premier American History education center, the museum campus includes the home of Governor William Livingston, the first elected governor of New Jersey, built in 1772. The house and gardens trace nearly 250 years of New Jersey history with an extensive collection of artifacts and documents original to the house.
The goal of the internship program at Liberty Hall is to give students the opportunity to see all aspects of a historic house museum. Liberty Hall offers relevant graduate level internships in education and collections management. Education interns will gain experience in developing and delivering educational programming for students from Pre-K through university level as well as adult continuing education. Collections management interns will gain experience in cataloguing the museum’s document and artifact collection, document transcription, condition reporting, and exhibit planning.
Work hours are flexible and can be scheduled at the student’s discretion based on museum operating hours.
Recent Education intern projects have included:
- Developing a new outreach program
- Delivering programs to schools and summer camps
- Researching Kean family history for a new exhibit
- Developing marketing materials for programs
- Creating pre/post visit materials for school programs
Recent Collections Management intern projects have included:
- Updating a decorative arts tour
- Inventorying historic clothing
- Cataloguing objects from the WWI collection
- Creating new period room layouts
Apply: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Please send a resume and a cover letter explaining your interest in this internship and in Liberty Hall Museum to Hannah Gaston, Coordinator of School Programs at hgaston@kean.edu.