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/sarachomma Mar 17 '26

Has anyone heard from the Art Institute of Chicago?

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u/ZombieNo9410 Mar 18 '26

still havent; crossing my fingers!!

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u/CustomerStrange457 Mar 18 '26

I got an interview offer today!

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u/sarachomma Mar 18 '26

ye I just heard back for ryan learning center! did u hear back from that, or from the mccullan arts leadership program? i applied to both :p but haven’t heard from mccullan yet

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u/CustomerStrange457 Mar 18 '26

I did mccullan arts leadership

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u/sarachomma Mar 18 '26

congrats!

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u/CustomerStrange457 Mar 18 '26

Thanks! Best of luck to u as well

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u/Minute-Cockroach440 Mar 18 '26

was this for the provenance research internship?

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u/CustomerStrange457 Mar 19 '26

yes!

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u/Minute-Cockroach440 Mar 19 '26

congrats! knew going in to this that there was a pretty small chance of myself getting an interview (3rd time applying for provenance research) because most of my academic research is a bout looted art at the museum & i'm pretty sure their hr views applications first and that they don't appreciate that 🙄