Forwarding with permission.
Regards,
Meg
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Margaret (Meg) Geiss-Mooney
Textile/Costume Conservator in Private Practice
Professional Associate, AIC
mgmooney@xxxxxxxxxxxx
The deadline on applications has been extended to
March 14.
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Linda Eikmeier Endersby, Assistant Director
Missouri State Museum and Jefferson Landing State Historic Site
Capitol Building, Rm B-2, Jefferson City, MO 65101
(573) 522-9018
Linda.Endersby@xxxxxxxxxx
INTERNSHIP: Missouri State Museum Collections and Conservation Internship
Come work with a diverse collection of over 60,000 objects and help conserve
Civil War flags! The Missouri
State Museum,
housed in the Missouri State Capitol, invites applications from graduate or
advanced undergraduate students who are interested in working with collections
and conservation. This internship is part of the museum’s efforts
to provide practical training and experience to those entering the museum profession.
The program offers interns the opportunity to work alongside Museum staff
to gain hands-on professional training. State Museum
internships include work on specific projects (see below), a thorough
orientation, and exposure to the entire museum through attendance at staff
planning meetings and shadowing key personnel.
Interns will work on collections inventory, re-housing, and cataloguing as well
as on preliminary textile conservation. The intern will inventory,
re-house, and catalog the museum’s photograph collection (approximately
3,000). In addition, under the supervision of the Assistant Director and
Curator of Collections, they will perform preliminary conservation work to
prepare fragile Civil War flags for conservation and restoration work by an outside
professional conservation team. The intern will gain experience in
artifact handling, collections records management, textile conservation, and
other museum work.
Work will be conducted at the State Museum and Jefferson Landing State Historic
Site in Jefferson City, Missouri, and includes 10 weeks of work at 40 hours per
week for the summer 2008. If needed, a
successful candidate may work for a longer time-period (if required by their
program) or adjust the begin date as late as September. A stipend is available to defray travel,
living expenses and other work-related costs.
Interested students must submit a letter of application, a curriculum
vitae/resume, a college transcript, a list of three references, and description
of any research or other work conducted in related fields. Interns are
normally working toward a degree in history, historic preservation, art
history, museum studies, archives, library and informational science, or other
related fields but students in any field may apply. Previous museum
experience is preferred but not required.
Completed applications should be received by Feb. 29 and can be sent by regular
mail, fax, or email to Linda Endersby, Assistant Director, Missouri State
Museum, Capitol Bldg., Room B-2, Jefferson City, Missouri,
65101. (Voice:
573-751-2854, Fax: 573-526-2927, Email:
Linda.Endersby@xxxxxxxxxx) Notification of awards will be made by
March 14.
For more information on the State
Museum and Jefferson
Landing State Historic Site, see http://www.mostateparks.com/statecapcomplex/index.html.