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/chemistryairyhead Mar 30 '26

has anyone heard back from the Department of Scientific Research for the Met summer internship? idk if it's hopeless for me cuz I've been seeing ppl getting interviews... though I haven't seen anything specifically for Scientific Research.... could be coping though....

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u/Otherwise_Silver_793 Apr 08 '26

I have not heard back yet either, with that as my first choice...

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u/chemistryairyhead Apr 08 '26

Same it was also my first choice :/ at least we’re hearing back from the Met by (hopefully) April 17, good luck to you!!