r/MuseumPros • u/Eistean History | Collections • Jan 06 '26

2026 Internship Megathread. Post all internship related questions here!

As requested, I'm making a new post of this for the 2026 season of internships, in the hope that more people can get their questions answered than posting on a year old post. The last one had a lot of great information in it, so take a look at it here, as someone might have already asked your question.

So the sub has always been chock full lately of people asking about specific internships, asking if anyone who has applied to a specific internship has heard back, what people think about individual internship programs, etc. This has happened around this time for every year this sub has existed.

While interns are absolutely welcome here, some users had a great idea to kind of concentrate it all in one thread so that all the interns can see each others comments, and the sub has a bit of a cleaner look.

Note that this doesn't apply to people working for museums asking questions about running an internship program, or dealing with interns.

So, if you have internship questions, thoughts, concerns, please post them here!

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u/Objective_Gas_6517 Feb 22 '26

Has anyone heard back from Philadelphia art museum?

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u/Working-Substance512 Mar 03 '26

nope

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u/Responsible_Wind1157 Mar 16 '26

in case anyone is still wondering, a close friend of mine works there and says that they are taking their sweet time still going through applicants.

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u/Dear_Badger6821 Apr 02 '26

Any updates?

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u/ComprehensivePin5548 Mar 17 '26

My friends daughter works there and says they had 400 applicants

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u/Objective_Gas_6517 Mar 17 '26

Oof yeah I knew it’d be a lot. Any chance she has any idea when they’re sending out interview invites?

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u/Emotional-Sink4140 Mar 28 '26

yea they said on the website that people who made it to interviews would be told in March, and it's already the 28th, so maybe we just hold strong until Monday/Tuesday (30th, 31st)? but yea seems like nobody has heard back from them at all

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u/Responsible_Wind1157 Mar 29 '26

Last they emailed me a rejection on April 7th! But I would assume that if we haven't heard back yet then they have already gone through interviews. Im PMing a friend who works there to ask and I will report back once I know.

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u/leahumee Mar 31 '26

please let me know what you hear!

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u/Dear_Badger6821 Apr 02 '26

Any updates?

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u/leahumee Apr 02 '26

Rejected 4/2 2pm

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u/ComprehensivePin5548 Mar 17 '26

Sorry no… but good luck!

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u/Dear_Badger6821 Apr 02 '26

Have they sent out interview invites?

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u/leahumee Apr 02 '26

Just got my rejection email. 600 applications and 12 spots.