The Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery is seeking a graduate student for a paid internship.
This internship focuses on museum collections management and will provide hands-on experience with care, planning, and preventive conservation strategies required for handling and preserving museum objects comprised of different material types. The EMS Museum’s collections include earth materials (rocks, minerals, fossils, industrial by-products), mid-century industrial art (paintings, works on paper, sculpture), and historic scientific equipment and tools of research and education.
The Collections Management Intern will work closely with the EMS Museum Collections Manager to conduct detailed inventories of collections in storage and on exhibit, confirm object location accuracy, identify object housing and storage needs, create digital images of objects as needed, and create or update collections management database records.
For a complete position description and to apply visit:
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For more information contact:
Patti Wood Finkle, EMS Museum & Art Gallery Collections Manager: (814) 863-6017; pwf5120@psu.edu
or
Julianne Snider, EMS Museum & Art Gallery Director: jxs1030@psu.edu