Internships
The third year of the program consists of a 12-month internship at a museum, library, archives or other cultural heritage institution.
How Internships Work
Interns are under the mentorship of a senior conservator working in the student's area of specialization. Placement is made at the department's discretion in consultation with the student and potential internship supervisors. The progress of each internship is monitored by the student's professor through reports submitted periodically by the internship mentor and the intern. Interns may elect a 20-workday privilege for individual research and study with the approval of the internship mentor and their professor.
At the close of the internship year, all interns return to the department in September for final oral presentations and to be awarded the master of arts degree and certificate of advanced study in art conservation.
Internship Placements
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Fine Arts-Boston
- Library of Congress
- National Archives and Records Administration
- Museum of Modern Art
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- American Museum of Natural History
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Field Museum of Natural History
- Saint Louis Art Museum
- Carnegie Museum of Art
- Denver Art Museum
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, the Menil Collection
- John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art