Internships

All Museum Studies students whether graduate or undergraduate are encouraged to seek out internship opportunities. These internships have been done at institutions across the United States. Students are encouraged to apply for competitive internships, but internships can also be arranged independently with the assistance of Museum Studies faculty. It is a firm policy of the department that all internships must be a meaningful work experience which gives the student the opportunity to learn by working alongside a seasoned museum professional.

Places where our students have held internships in the past five years:

Waco

• Dr Pepper Museum and Free Enterprise Institute
• Historic Waco Foundation
• Ray Riley Digitization Center, Baylor University Libraries

Beyond

Bayou Bend Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Carnegie Science Center

George H. W. Bush Presidential Library

George W. Bush Presidential Library

Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School

History of Scuba Diving Museum

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Scotty's Castle, Death Valley, California

Oklahoma History Center

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum

Third Cavalry Museum, Fort Hood

Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Smithsonian National Postal Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Supreme Court

Museum Studies students have also found opportunities for meaningful work experiences at some of the other libraries and cultural institutions on campus.