Art Curatorship Internships General Information

The internship aims to:

• broaden students' skills, expertise and experience in museum/gallery work.
• enable students to explore how specific areas of museum/gallery practice fit into the larger institutional infrastructure in order to expand students' understanding of museum work.
• develop an understanding of the relationship between museum/gallery theory and institutional practice and to explore current debates in a chosen area of museum work.
• develop awareness, understanding and critical appreciation of museum/gallery culture.

You should not enroll in the internship in the first semester of your degree.

Our internships:

• are an integral and compulsory part of our Graduate Diploma and Master of Arts degrees.
• are supervised by museum/gallery professionals
• 20 days long
• are undertaken at different rates. For example, for a 20-day internship, one student might work 5 days a week for 4 weeks straight; another might work 2 days a week for 10 weeks. You are free to make any arrangements that are convenient to you and your workplace supervisor, provided that twenty, 7-hour days are completed and there is no conflict with class room sessions
• Take place in Australian and international institutions that vary widely in size, collection type and museology
• Are established by you in an institution of your choice, with the assistance of the Internship Officer,
• Are project-based; allowing you to gain real support for finite or ongoing projects or for the development of new projects, and allowing students to become involved in work that has an identifiable outcome.
• Usually involve one or a small number of projects in an area of museum work – for example, registration, education, exhibitions etc. However, especially in smaller museums, internships have involved projects across a number of such areas.
  
  require you to prepare written assessments and to make a presentation

Early in the semester in which you are enrolled, you will be notified of a compulsory internship information session which will cover the various processes and requirements of the internship. You must not approach an institution for an internship until you have attended one of these sessions or have met with the Internship Officer, to discuss your application plans.

If you are seeking to commence a placement before the information session, you can contact:
Jane Johnston.
Phone: 9036 6544.
Email:

Information Sessions

It is compulsory to attend an internship information session at the beginning of the semester in which you are enrolled in an internship unit.

The information session for Semester 2 will be in the early evening of the [b]10th of August[/b]. Soon after the beginning of semester, students who are enrolled in an internship unit will be emailed with further details of this session.

Presentation Sessions