Beyond the Basics of Museum and Archives Internships: Visioning

About This Event

This event is the culmination of a year of activity focusing on conversation. Building upon our previous two sessions, and their keynotes, our goal is to provide practical advice, and a call to action, rather than mere discussion about internships.

Our goal is to create a rough draft of our "Internship Readiness Toolkit" aimed at three audiences: students seeking museum, library, and archive internships; host institutions; and universities and colleges with museum studies/library and archive courses and programs requiring or encouraging internships.

Because of the nature of our conversations and collaborations, this is an in-person only event. Materials from previous sessions will be provided in advance of the workshop, so please register through Eventbrite to receive these materials. We look forward to seeing you in Seneca Falls!

Agenda:

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Welcome and Overview, with refreshments available all morning. Introduction of new organizing committee members.

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

Setting the Stage, Draft 1: We will review slides, notes, and summaries from previous two sessions (December 2024 and January 2025) and use these to guide brainstorming and drafting of Internship Readiness Toolkit.

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Break & Tour of the Exhibition, curated by an SU graduate student

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Continue Drafting the Toolkit

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

Share Out, Wrap Up, and Next Steps

Co-sponsors

• Syracuse University Museum Studies program, School of Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts
• Central New York Humanities Corridor
• RIT Archives
• RIT Museum Studies Program
• Philip K. and Anne Wehrheim Endowment in support of the RIT-Genesee Country Village & Museum Partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology