New York State Museum History Office is organizing and hosting the New York History Conference in June 2025 here at the CEC. Student intern is needed to help with correspondence to presenters, registration, and other conference-related tasks.
Additionally, student will have the opportunity to help with curatorial related tasks for the NYSM history collections. The NYSM has over 5 million artifacts related to NYS history. The intern will learn how to document, research, process, re-house, and store artifacts. Work may include de-installation and installation of artifacts on exhibit.
Collections/Curatorial work - 5 hours a week on-site
New York History Conference - 5 hours a week
This assignment would be hands-on work directly with artifacts in the History collections.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Physical processing of historical artifacts, documents, and materials in the Museum's collection including cleaning, organizing, labeling, re-housing, and incorporating into storage, using NYS Museum practices and standards;
(2) cataloguing individual artifacts;
(3) Entering catalog and related data into electronic databases;
(4) Preserving, documenting, and evaluating artifacts;
(5) Conducting artifact –level inventories;
(6) Photographing artifacts for documentation;
(7) Assisting curators and collections staff with exhibits, public programs, tours, research requests, and other educational/research activities related to the collections
(8) Assist with the New York History Conference planning including reviewing proposals, taking notes at meetings, and assisting conference organizers with tasks related to the conference.
Intern will learn collections management and best museum practices in a large cultural institution.
Intern will learn museum procedures.
Intern will gain experience with a collections database.
Intern will gain experience planning for a professional conference.
Working on a Masters or PhD degree in History or public history. Some public history experience preferred, database experience (excel, Past Perfect, MIMSY), attention to detail.
7 hours/week to be completed at the NYSM located at 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, New York or at the off-site storage facility in Rotterdam, NY.
3 hours/week to be completed remotely or at NYSM (as needed)
Undergraduate students will be paid $15/hour and graduate students will be paid $18/hour. For all offices located in NYC or Westchester, Suffolk, or Nassau Counties, undergraduate students will be paid $16.00/hour and graduate students will be paid $19.00/hour.
Qualified candidates should email a cover letter, resume, transcript (student copy is acceptable), and completed internship application to internships@nysed.gov. Please include the Assignment Number (OCE-SP-25-18) in the subject line of your email to reference this assignment.
Failure to send complete application materials via email will result in your removal from our consideration.
Jennifer Lemak