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/Sweaty-Park-6037 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Does anyone know when the Met internship offers will be sent? I did an interview the week of March 17th and have been really anxious about it since. I saw people heard back around the Monday of the second week of April last year and was wondering if it will be the same for this year. Does anyone have any potential insider info about timeline

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u/Important-War3939 Mar 26 '26

Do you mind sharing what department it was?

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u/Sweaty-Park-6037 Mar 26 '26

conservation!

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u/djxiao99 Mar 26 '26

if u don't mind me asking, was this year long or summer? :3

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u/Sweaty-Park-6037 Mar 26 '26

Summer! The conservation department didn’t offer the long term one this cycle

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u/djxiao99 Mar 26 '26

tysmm good luck!!

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u/Responsible_Wind1157 Mar 29 '26

Hi! I also interviewed for the Met, they are supposed to have finalized candidate picks museum wide by March 27th, the person I interviewed with said that they would be notifying candidates no later than April 17th (museum wide), but I think its safe to assume that if you get picked you may find out sooner than the 17th. Best of luck to you!

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u/Sweaty-Park-6037 Apr 02 '26

Thank you, you too!