Internships

Thank you for your interest in an internship at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. While Cooper-Hewitt is undergoing a major expansion and renovation of its campus and buildings, we have an extremely limited number of internship positions. Please check our website for updates and new application dates.

Cooper-Hewitt is pleased to participate in ARTS INTERN, a summer internship opportunity for college students interested in learning more about careers in museums and cultural institutions. This program is open to undergraduate students who live or go to college in New York City, and who can demonstrate a specific level of financial need. To learn more about his exciting opportunity, and to apply for the 2010 ARTS INTERN summer positions available at Cooper-Hewitt, please visit www.artsintern.org or click on the links below.

• Education Internship
• Rare Books Internship

Internships offers hands-on learning opportunities for students from around the globe to experience the museum work environment. Interns are teamed with staff mentors and work on projects like Summer Design Institute, exhibition research, grant writing, and collections cataloguing. The internship program encourages promising students of art history, architectural history, museum studies, museum education, and design to explore museum careers.

This program acquaints participants with the programs, policies, procedures, and operations of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and of museums in general. Interns are assigned to specific curatorial, educational, or administrative departments where they assist on special research or exhibition projects and participate in daily museum activities.